People wait before a mass given by Pope Benedict XVI on September 22, 2011 at the Olympia stadion stadium in Berlin, at the start of his first state visit to his native Germany. The 84-year old pope, German born Joseph Ratzinger, has a packed program, with 18 sermons and speeches planned for his four-day trip to Berlin, Erfurt in the ex-German Democratic Republic and Freiburg.
AFP PHOTO / PATRICK LUX