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Article: Pope in Egypt stresses dialogue.(Pope John Paul II)(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- March 10, 2000
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Following in the steps of countless pilgrims, Pope John Paul came to the foot of Mount Sinai to pray at the site where Moses is believed to have received the 10 Commandments. His visit to the 6th-century St. Catherine's Monastery marked the culminating moment of his Feb. 24-26 visit to Egypt, and the first step of his longed-for Jubilee pilgrimage to "some of the places which are closely linked to the Incarnation of the Word of God, the events which the Holy Year of 2000 directly recalls."
John Paul had hoped to begin this pilgrimage to the biblical sites in Ur of the Chaldees -- modern day Tell el-Muqayyar in southern Iraq -- to commemorate the life of Abraham, ...