Pope Benedict XVI devoted his address at an open air Mass in Viterbo, Italy, to recalling the deaths of "tens of millions of people" in the Holocaust and the Second World War.

A church which rose from the ashes of a bombed out city symbolises hope and belief that humanity can transcend horror and violence God can heal lives, the Anglican Archbishop of Wales has told a special civic service in Swansea.

As a record 5,300 events take place across Britain this weekend to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2007, organisers and supporters are warning about complacency over whether “it could happen again”.