PIELGRZYMKA PAPIEZA DO SYRII

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP PHOTO Pope John Paul II attends a meeting with young people at the Cathedral of the Dormition, the Greek Catholic patriarchate, i...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP PHOTO Pope John Paul II prays inside the gutted St. George church in Quneitra where he blessed an olive tree symbolizing peace 0...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SIPA PRESS DAMAS, SYRIA:Pope John Paul II during a mass celebrated at Al-Abassyin Stadium in Damascus. Around 40,000 did attend the m...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Pope John Paul II yawns during an open-air mass at Abbassyin stadium in Damascus 06 May 2001 on the second day of his four-day vi...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Pope John Paul II waves during an open-air mass at Abbassyin stadium in Damascus 06 May 2001 on the second day of his four-day vi...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Assyrian Greek Catholic Patriarch Zakka (L) offers a gift to Pope John Paul ll at the Syrian Orthodox cathedral of Damascus 06 M...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Pope John Paul II and Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregory III Lahham embrace during an open-air mass at Abbassyin stadium in Damascu...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Pope John Paul II holds up the host during an open-air papal mass at Abbassyin stadium in Damascus 06 May 2001. AFP PHOTO/Rab...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Assyrian Greek Catholic Patriarch Zakka speaks as Pope John Paul ll listens at the Syrian Orthodox cathedral of Damascus 06 May...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP PHOTO Pope John Paul II arrives in his popemobile at the Umayyad mosque in Damascus 06 May 2001 where he became the first ever p...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Pope John Paul II (R) embrace Greek Orthodox Patriarch Hazim IV during a ceremony at the Mariamidiyeh church in Damascus 05 May...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Pope John Paul II (R) and Greek Orthodox Patriarch Hazim IV attend a ceremony at the Mariamidiyeh church in Damascus 05 May 2001...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Pope John Paul II waves upon his arrival in Damascus from Athens 05 May 2001. The pontiff arrived in Syria on a four-day visit a...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SIPA PRESS DAMAS, SYRIA: Pope John Paul II visiting greek-orthodox cathedral 00425261

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SIPA PRESS DAMAS, SYRIA: Pope John Paul II visiting greek-orthodox cathedral 00425261

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP PHOTO Tourists converge on the courtyard of the Umayad Mosque 29 April 2001 in Damascus, where Pope John Paul II will become the...