Date of source: Thursday, March 23, 2000
Pope John Paul II, stopped the Mass, which he was holding in the cradle yard in Jerusalem when he heard the Islamic noon call to prayer from a mosque that faces the yard. The Pope and all the attendants who participated in the Mass waited until the call to prayer finished in order to resume the...
Date of source: Sunday, March 19, 2000
The Guardian newspaper says that the visit of the Pope to Jerusalem is the same as entering a minefield. One known rabbi [no name was mentioned] asked the Pope to remove his cross when he goes to the Wailing Wall.
Date of source: Sunday, March 19, 2000
Announcement of the visit of the Pope to Amman, Jerusalem, and the Palestinian territories.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 15, 2000
... It is so easy for John Paul II, the Vatican’s current pope, to apologize for his ancestors during the Crusades and the Inquisition. This Pope did not cause those problems but if we accept these apologies would our martyrs accept them? We thank the current Pope. He was not the one who caused...
Date of source: Saturday, March 11, 2000 to Friday, March 17, 2000
"... In the weekly sermon in Saint Peter’s Square, the Pope, made apologies for the way the church treated the scientist Galileo who said the earth revolves around the sun. The Pope also spoke about the pain the Crusaders caused for the people in the East. This will also be discussed in the meeting...
Date of source: Saturday, March 4, 2000 to Friday, March 10, 2000
In the time that the Egyptians were welcoming the Pope and viewing one of the most beautiful pictures of religious brotherhood, violence and fanaticism took on their worst forms in Israel. In newspapers, on radio and television and on walls in streets in Israel, there were accusations against the...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 1, 2000
The Patriarch of Lebanon, Nasrallah Sfeir, is not just a clergyman. He is one of the few effective characters on the Lebanese stage. He is very strict on his attitude towards the Arabic cases, like Jerusalem. He is interviewed here concerning the Roman Catholic Pope’s visit to Egypt.
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
The great rabbis of Israel objected at first to the Pope’s visit to the Holy Lands and laid down the condition that if the Pope would like to meet them during his visit he would have to meet them in the Rabbinical Headquarters.
Date of source: Thursday, February 17, 2000
Sub-title: The Vatican emphasizes its refusal of Israeli dominion over eastern Jerusalem and [its] fait-accompli policies
His Holiness Pope John Paul II is to arrive to Cairo next Thursday on the first visit of the pope of the Vatican to Egypt in response to the invitation of President Hosni...
Date of source: Sunday, February 13, 2000
At the "Quddaas Al-Arbaien" held last Thursday in the Archangel Michael Church for the spirits of those who were killed in Al-Kosheh was presided over by Bishop Wissa of Al-Balyana and Dar Al-Salaam, General Bishop Yo’annes, the delegate of His Holiness the Pope, and the secretary of the pope. A...