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PHOTO: EAST NEWS/WOJTEK LASKI Siodma pielgrzymka papieza Jana Pawla II do Polski 1999, Torun, 07.06.1999 N/z: nabozenstwo czerwcowe z homilia, beatyfikacja Stefana Wincentego Frelichowskiego, papiez podczas modlitwy Pope's 7th visit to Poland, 06.07.99. Mass in Torun Pope's 7th visit to Poland, 07.06.99. Mass in Torun
Pope John Paul II holds up a host as he celebrates Mass at the Bydgoszcz airport, Monday, June 7, 1999. A goal of John Paul's 13-day pilgrimage to his homeland, the longest trip to any single country of his papacy, is to fortify the church's influence in Poland a decade after communist rule ended. (AP Photo/Rudi Blaha)
PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Pope John Paul II prepares to celebrate mass 23 March for some 50,000 faithful in Kubwa, near the Nigerian capital of Abuja. The pontiff launched another forceful defence of human rights, on the final day of a three-day pastoral visit. He also lectured Roman Catholics in Africa's most populous nation, facing severe challenges on both the democratic and the AIDS fronts, on the importance of family values and the "inviolability" of life.
PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Pope John Paul II prepares to celebrate mass 23 March for some 50,000 faithful in Kubwa, near the Nigerian capital of Abuja. The pontiff launched another forceful defence of human rights, on the final day of a three-day pastoral visit. He also lectured Roman Catholics in Africa's most populous nation, facing severe challenges on both the democratic and the AIDS fronts, on the importance of family values and the "inviolability" of life.
Pope John Paul II attend the Festival of Witnesses at Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium, Saturday, Oct. 4, 1997. The Pontiff condemned abortion as the shame of humanity, as he pressed ahead Saturday with his moral crusade before tens of thousands of Brazilians packing the world s largest stadium. (AP Photo/Massimo Sambucetti)
Accompanied by hundreds of bishops adorned in rainbow stripes, Pope John Paul II, center, celebrates Mass in famed Notre Dame cathedral for the first time in Paris Friday Aug. 22, 1997. The 77-year-old pontiff, in Paris for a four-day rendezvous with hundreds of thousands of youths from around the world, celebrates a beatification ceremony for Frederic Ozanam, a 19th-century French layman who founded the St Vincent de Paul charity. Beatification is one step before sainthood.(AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
