In beginning his pilgrimage to retrace some of the epic passages from the Bible, John Paul became the first Roman Catholic pope to visit predominantly Islamic Egypt.
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Chapter 25.6, on the head of the church, was rewritten, and the identification of the Roman Catholic pope as the Antichrist was removed.
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Is it really credible that a virulently atheistic dictator whose mind was affected by syphilis would have adopted a calendar bearing the name of a Roman Catholic Pope?
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John Paul's visit, the first by a Roman Catholic pope to Syria, is part of a tour that includes Orthodox Greece and Roman Catholic Malta.
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Until the Portuguese arrival, Malankara Christians never even heard of the Roman Catholic Pope . Unfortunately there was no Metropolitan present in the Malankara Church at that time.
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Although Castro's first appearance was at the summit, the chief interest lay in his expected audience with the Roman Catholic pope across the Tiber in the Vatican.
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A day before John Paul II was to become the first Roman Catholic pope ever to visit Syria, there was some grumbling here because Maaloula was not in his itinerary.
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Try as they might, Gore and others arguing for population control probably will not convince the Roman Catholic pope and Muslim conservatives to go along with anything the international conference adopts.
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On Sunday, John Paul II will be the first Roman Catholic pope to enter a mosque, a significant gesture in the long and contentious history of Christian-Muslim relations.
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John Paul's two-day visit to Greece in May 2000 was the first by a Roman Catholic pope to predominantly Orthodox Christian Greece in nearly 1, 300 years.
