PHOTO: EAST NEWS JAN PAWEL II POD SCIANA PLACZU - SWIETYM MIEJSCEM JUDAIZMU - PIELGRZYMKA PAPIEZA DO ZIEMI SWIETEJ. Pope John Paul II sits surrounded with Israeli flags at the Wailing Wall, the holiest site in Judaism, in Jerusalem 26 March 2000. The pope was on the second stop of a politically charged tour of three sites holy to Muslims, Jews and Christians on his last day in the Holy Land. (ELECTRONIC IMAGE)

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Cuban President Fidel Castro(L) looks at his watch as he and Pope John Paul II(R) walk on the tarmac of the Jose Marti international airport in Havana 21 January moments after the Pope arrived for a five-day four-city tour of the island-nation. This is the first-ever papal visit to Cuba. (ELECTRONIC IMAGE) AFP PHOTO/Michel GANGNE

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Pope John Paul II gestures during his meeting with Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski (L) at the Vatican 19 May 2003. Pope John Paul II today urged fellow-Poles to vote "Yes" in a referendum next month to allow Poland join an enlarged European Union next year.

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP King Juan Carlos of Spain (bottom L), Pope John Paul II, Queen Sofia, (bottom R), Juan Carlos' sister, Infanta Pilar (L), Inaki Urdangarin (5thL) holding his children, Juan Valentin (4thL) and Pablo Nicolas (6thL), his wife, Infanta Cristina (8th), Crown Prince Felipe (9th L), Princess Elena (4thR), her husband Jaime de Marichalar (3rdR), Juan Carlos' sister, Infanta Margarita (2ndR), and her husband Carlos Zurita pose for a picture 04 May 2003 in Madrid.

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Pope John Paul II speaks before the Italian Parliament at the Chamber of Deputies November 13, 2002 in Rome, Italy. The Pope urged Italians to work for world peace as well as to uphold Christian values. The historic speech was the first time a pope has ever spoken before the Italian Parliament.

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Pope John Paul II (l) and European Convention President Valery Giscard D'Estaing during their talks in Vatican City 31 October 2002.

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP PHOTO Pope John Paul II greets Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat prior to a brief audience at the Vatican 30 October 2001. Arafat is in Italy for a short visit where he is expected to meet Italian official.

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP PHOTO Armenian Patriarch Karekin II (R) offers a gift to Pope John Paul II during a meeting at the Apostolic Palace in Etchmiadzin 25 September 2001. The 81-year-old Pontiff arrived in Armenia for a three-day visit.

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Pope John Paul II salutes Cardinal Lubomyr Husar in front of more than one million of pilgrims during a Divine Liturgy with beatifications in Lviv, 27June 2001, on the last day of his five-day visit in Ukraine. One million Catholics gathered at the racecourse here as Pope John Paul II beatified 28 martyrs during the final mass of his controversial visit to the former Soviet Republic. AFP PHOTO POOL GABRIEL BOUYS

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/WOJTEK LASKI 94. podroz apostolska papieza Jana Pawla II, Ukraina, 23.06.2001, Kijow. N/z: papiez i prezydent Ukrainy Leonid Kuczma - uroczyste powitanie na lotnisku Boryspol JUNE 23, 2001 KIEV, UKRAINE JOHN PAUL II WITH UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTL.KUCHMA Pope John Paul II is greeted by Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma at the Kiev Boyspil international airport Saturday, June 23, 2001. Pope John Paul II arrived in Ukraine for a five-day visit that will take him to Kiev and Lviv.

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Pope John Paul II during a meeting with Rome's forward Japanese Hidetoshi Nakata 29 October 2000 at the Olympic Stadium in Rome after the Sport Jubilee match between the Italian national team against the All Stars team made up of foreigners playing in Italian soccer teams.

PHOTO: EAST NEWS JAN PAWEL II PRZY SCIANIE PLACZU - SWIETYM MIEJSCU JUDAIZMU W JEROZOLIMIE. Pope John Paul II touches in prayer the Wailing Wall, the holiest site in Judaism, 26 March 2000 in Jerusalem. The pope was on the second stop of a politically charged tour of three sites holy to Muslims, Jews and Christians on his last day in the Holy Land. (ELECTRONIC IMAGE)

PHOTO: EAST NEWS PAPIEZ JAN PAWEL II ODWIEDZI PODCZAS PILEGRZYMKI DO ZIEMI SWIETEJ NAJWAZNIEJSZE MIEJSCA DLA TRZECH RELIGII: CHRZESCIJANSTWA, JUDAIZMU I ISLAMU. Two Orthodox Jews descend steps to the square overlooking the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Dome of the Rock and the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem 25 March 2000. Pope John Paul II will end his pilgrimage to the Holy Land tomorrow in Jerusalem with a visit to three of the holiest sites in Islam, Judaism and Christianity.

PHOTO: EAST NEWS PIELGRZYMKA JANA PAWLA II DO ZIEMI SWIETEJ: PAPIEZ PRZEMAWIA W MIEJSCU PAMIECI OFIAR HOLOCAUSTU YAD VASCHEM W JEROZOLIMIE Pope John Paul II delivers a speech at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem 23 March 2000. The Pope deplored "the terrible tragedy of the Shoah (Holocaust)" in the memorial built to the memory of the six million Jews killed by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945. (ELECTRONIC IMAGE)

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/WOJTEK LASKI Siodma pielgrzymka papieza Jana Pawla II do Polski, Warszawa, 11.06.1999 N/z: wizyta papieza w Sejmie

PHOTO: EASTNEWS/W. LASKI Siodma pielgrzymka papieza Jana Pawla II do Polski, Warszawa, 11.06.1999 N/z: wizyta papieza w Sejmie

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/WOJTEK LASKI Siodma pielgrzymka papieza Jana Pawla II do Polski, spotkanie w Sejmie, Warszawa, 11.06.1999 Pope's 7th Visit to Poland 11.06.1999 WARSAW Pope meeting the Polish Parliament (Seym and Senate in the presence of Polish President, Prime Minister and Government, in participation of the Diplomatic Corps and other invited Guest) in seat of Seym. Pope delivering address in Polish Seym - For the first time in history

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/WOJTEK LASKI Siodma pielgrzymka papieza Jana Pawla II do Polski, spotkanie w Sejmie, Warszawa, 11.06.1999 Pope's 7th Visit to Poland 11.06.1999 WARSAW Pope meeting the Polish Parliament (Seym and Senate in the presence of Polish President, Prime Minister and Government, in participation of the Diplomatic Corps and other invited Guest) in seat of Seym. Pope delivering address in Polish Seym - For the first time in history

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/WOJTEK LASKI Siodma pielgrzymka papieza Jana Pawla II do Polski, spotkanie w Sejmie, Warszawa, 11.06.1999 Pope's 7th Visit to Poland 11.06.1999 WARSAW Pope meeting the Polish Parliament (Seym and Senate in the presence of Polish President, Prime Minister and Government, in participation of the Diplomatic Corps and other invited Guest) in seat of Seym. Pope delivering address in Polish Seym - For the first time in history

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/WOJTEK LASKI Siodma pielgrzymka papieza Jana Pawla II do Polski, spotkanie w Sejmie, Warszawa, 11.06.1999 Pope's 7th Visit to Poland 11.06.1999 WARSAW Pope meeting the Polish Parliament (Seym and Senate in the presence of Polish President, Prime Minister and Government, in participation of the Diplomatic Corps and other invited Guest) in seat of Seym. Pope delivering address in Polish Seym - For the first time in history