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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/11602/full/11602/pope-plans-historic-visit-to-mount-sinai/ <br /><br /> <b>Pope plans historic visit to Mount Sinai</b> <br /> Friday, September 10, 1999 | by <p>JERUSALEM (JPS)—Pope John Paul II is slated to visit Mount Sinai in Egypt in early December on the first of two planned visit </p> <br /><br /><p>The visit to Iraq and Egypt will precede a projected visit to other sites—including Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority—which is unofficially slated for March 24, the date of the Roman Catholic Feast of the Annunciation.<br /><br /> According to Vatican sources in Jerusalem, the Israel visit was not yet made official because of unhappiness over the situation in Nazareth, where Muslims are continuing to demand that a mosque be erected on a plot which the municipality had earmarked for a plaza to be used by Christian pilgrims.<br /><br /> The planned mosque would be only 65 feet from the Basilica of the Annunciation. Catholics have contended that they do not oppose the building of a mosque, but consider it inappropriate to have a large mosque so near the church.</p> <p> </p>

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