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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 Search Search: Christians mark Easter as pope pleads for peace AFP - 2 hours 49 minutes ago VATICAN CITY (AFP) - - Pope Benedict XVI appealed for peace in Africa and the Middle East during his Easter blessing on Sunday as Christians across the world celebrated the resurrection of Jesus Christ. ADVERTISEMENT Tens of thousands of pilgrims filled St Peter's Square for the pope's traditional "urbi et orbi" (to the city and the world) message, amid a sombre holiday for Italians mourning nearly 300 people killed in an earthquake. In other parts of the world, pilgrims flocked to the spot where Jesus is believed to have resurrected in Jerusalem, while Christians celebrated Easter in war-torn countries such as Iraq. The pope led a procession of cardinals and bishops across St Peter's square decked out in springtime flowers and ascended red-carpeted steps to take his place before St Peter's Basilica as Swiss Guards stood at attention. The mass took place under an overcast sky on this Easter, which celebrates the Resurrection of Christ after his crucifixion on Good Friday. From the steps of the basilica, Benedict delivered a message to the survivors of the earthquake disaster that hit the Abruzzo region last week as he addressed Easter greetings to Catholics around the world in 63 languages. "Happy Easter to you, men and women of Italy, in particular those who suffer because of the earthquake. May the risen Christ ... inspire in all the necessary wisdom and courage to proceed united in the building of a future open to hope," he said in Italian. The pontiff also appealed for peace in Africa and said reconciliation among rival factions in the Middle East was "difficult, but indispensable". Benedict plans to travel to Israel and Jordan next month. "Reconciliation ... is a precondition for a future of overall security and peaceful coexistence, and it can only be achieved through renewed, persevering and sincere efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," he said. "Africa suffers disproportionately from the cruel and unending conflicts, often forgotten, that are causing so much bloodshed and destruction in several of her nations," the pope added. In Africa, a "growing number of her sons and daughters who fall prey to hunger, poverty and disease," said Benedict, three weeks after his maiden trip to the continent. Christian pilgrims from across the globe filled every nook of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to celebrate Easter on the spot many believe Jesus was crucified and resurrected. The cavernous interior of the church, considered by most Christians as their holiest site, was filled with the glow of thousands of candles for Easter Sunday as worshippers crowded into its labyrinth of chapels and crypts. "I am the happiest person in the world right now," said Freida, a 63-year-old history teacher from Germany. "I have dreamt about this for 40 years." The smell of incense and the hum of prayers filled the air as the pilgrims glimpsed Christianity's most revered sites -- the place where Jesus was crucified by the Romans, the slab of stone where his body was laid afterward and embraced by his mother, the tomb where he was buried and resurrected. "Hallelujah!" intoned the crowd periodically as the white-robed Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, the top Roman Catholic leader in the Holy Land, conducted mass. In Baghdad, hundreds of Iraqi Christians marked Easter in a country where thousands of the religion's followers have fled the majority Muslim nation since the 2003 US-led invasion. Father Boutros Hadad, of the Church of Mary the Virgin in Baghdad's Karrada district, told worshippers that Easter was a time to forgive past sins and an opportunity to look to the future. "Our religion taught us forgiveness and to forget the past and to turn a new page," he said. "Jesus taught us forgiveness and this is the philosophy of the Christian religion -- to forget those who wronged us. The situation in Iraq has improved and that is a cause for optimism." According to Christian leaders, 250,000 of the 800,000 Christians who lived in Iraq before the invasion six years ago that ousted dictator Saddam Hussein, have now left the country. Christians make up three percent of the population. 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