11.   Today its residents eke out a living mostly by selling goods and services to religious pilgrims and catering to a growing tourist trade.

12.   A year and a half of bloodshed has kept tourists away, even religious pilgrims, who are often among hardier, determined travelers.

13.   Egypt sent its first jetliner to Libya on Thursday to begin an air shuttle of religious pilgrims to Saudi Arabia.

14.   Even during the normal tourist crunches, Rome is choked by lumbering tour buses and bevies of sightseers and religious pilgrims.

15.   For centuries, religious pilgrims and tourists have flocked to the Notre Dame de Chartres Cathedral.

16.   One of the homeless, Mahmoudzadeh, sat cross-legged on Persian carpets that covered the marble floor of the mausoleum, where hundreds of religious pilgrims often camp.

17.   Second, they say hordes of religious pilgrims will make life miserable for ordinary Romans.

18.   Several of the women, Catholic Bosnian Croats, wept as the pope appeared in the basilica in this town that draws religious pilgrims.

19.   She sat cross-legged on Persian carpets that covered the marble floor of the mausoleum, where hundreds of religious pilgrims often camp.

20.   The week passed without the confrontations the Vatican said it feared between gays and religious pilgrims visiting Rome for the Holy Year.