Pilgrims in traditional dresses wait for Pope Benedict XVI to serve a Sunday Mass at Eastern Czech metropol of Brno, on September 27, 2009. Pope Benedict XVI called Sunday for hope and a renewal of faith in the former communist Czech Republic, as he served a large open-air mass in Brno, watched by some 120,000 faithful. The pope is paying his first visit to the Czech Republic ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that toppled Communism in former Czechoslovakia in 1989. (Getty/Daylife)