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Pope Arrives in Cologne to Address World Youth Day

By Sylvia Poggioli
Published August 18, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT
The gathering in Cologne, Germany, is drawing young Catholics from around the world.
Sylvia Poggioli, NPR
The gathering in Cologne, Germany, is drawing young Catholics from around the world.

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Sylvia Poggioli
Sylvia Poggioli is senior European correspondent for NPR's International Desk covering political, economic, and cultural news in Italy, the Vatican, Western Europe, and the Balkans. Poggioli's on-air reporting and analysis have encompassed the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, the turbulent civil war in the former Yugoslavia, and how immigration has transformed European societies.