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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Pope urges 'rebirth' of Italian quake zone AFP - 1 hour 21 minutes ago L'AQUILA, Italy (AFP) - - Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday called for a "rebirth" of central Italy's Abruzzo region, on a visit there three weeks after a devastating earthquake killed 295 people and left thousands homeless. ADVERTISEMENT "I encourage everyone, institutions and businesses, to see that this village and this region are reborn," he said at a tent camp for homeless survivors in the worst-hit town of Onna, near the Abruzzo capital L'Aquila. The village of just 350 inhabitants lost some 40 of its residents in Italy's worst earthquake in a generation. The pope then visited L'Aquila, the quake's epicentre some 100 kilometres (60 miles) northeast of Rome. There, he commented on charges that thousands of dwellings had collapsed because of lax building practices. "As a civil society, we must make a serious examination of conscience to ensure that at any moment the level of responsibility is at its height," he said. "That way, L'Aquila, wounded as she is, can once again take flight," the pope told several hundred people at a military academy just outside L'Aquila, which means "eagle" in Italian, in the suburb of Coppito. The pope echoed comments by Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, during a tour of the zone three days after the quake. He denounced the "widespread irresponsibility" that had caused loss of life through the disregard for building safety norms, The president also called for an "examination of conscience" by builders, inspectors and real estate agents. The pontiff, who led Easter celebrations at the Vatican just six days after the disaster, arrived by car nearly an hour late after the bad weather forced the cancellation of a plan to travel to the region by helicopter. Benedict also stopped at a dormitory in L'Aquila where eight students died in the disaster. Apart from the human cost, the earthquake also exacted a heavy toll on the medieval and Renaissance architecture that abounds in the Abruzzo region. The pope visited L'Aquila's Santa Maria di Collemaggio basilica that suffered serious damage in the disaster. The church first built in the 13th century, already destroyed and rebuilt after an earthquake in 1703, is a major pilgrimage site as it houses the remains of the "hermit pope" Celestine V. Celestine, a mountain recluse who was crowned pope in the basilica in 1294, resigned only a few months later in protest over corruption in the Roman Catholic Church, and has since been made a saint. In homage to his humble predecessor, the pope offered the woollen shawl or pallium he received when he was inaugurated as pontiff in 2005. The military academy was the site of a mass funeral for 205 of the quake victims on April 10, when Benedict led Good Friday observances in Rome and at the Vatican. Last week Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi made the surprise announcement that the site had been chosen as the venue for a Group of Eight summit in July over the original choice of La Maddalena, an island off Sardinia. At a tent camp near L'Aquila, some people were critical of the pope for waiting three weeks before visiting the region. "Everyone came except him," Giovani Nobile told AFP. "It's been 22 days that we've been in the tents. I expected him at least at the funeral." Notably, Berlusconi travelled to the region on each of the first several days following the disaster, holding news conferences on the search and rescue efforts. Benedict's predecessor Pope John Paul II visited the central Umbria region three months after twin earthquakes killed 12 people and caused serious damage to the famous Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi in 1997. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article 0 users recommend Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: World Somali gunmen release 2 abducted aid workersAP - 1 hour 5 minutes ago Game taken offline after Islamic group complainsAP - 1 hour 5 minutes ago Court: FCC 'Fleeting Expletive' rule OK for nowAP - 1 hour 7 minutes ago Baby gorilla saved from trafficker in CongoAP - 1 hour 13 minutes ago Queen Elizabeth honors Yeomen of the GuardAP - 1 hour 16 minutes ago Enlarge Photo Pope Benedict XVI, seen in the financial school in L'Aquila, has called for a "rebirth" of central Italy's Abruzzo region, on a visit there three weeks after a devastating earthquake killed 295 people and left thousands homeless. 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