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Show The Salt Lake Tribune WORLD A3 Sunday, December26, 1999 ligt oT. cea Magy Pies ona 18 aeee Prayers for Peace Mark Christmas Around the World ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In church and chapels, the birth of Jesus was celebrated on Christmas Day with carols and a hope that the annual prayers for peace might be answered in the eeeaie new In Rome, Pope John Paul II was up in the early hours to open the bronze Holy Deor at the back of the St. Peter’s basilica to launch the Vatican's Jubilee, a year of forgiveness andself-reflection. Describing himself and fellow believers as “pilgrims in time,” John Paul spokeof“all the places of grief and of war” and urged peopleto “ban the senseless use of arms andthe recourse to violence and hatred which have doomed individuals, peoples and continents.” Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah’s Midnight Mass was the highlight of two joyous days of festivities in Bethlehem, although there appeared to be far fewer pilgrims than the 60,000 that Palestinian organizers had expected in the city where Christians believe Jesus was born. Security fears apparently kept many away, but Bethlehem enjoyed a relaxed and peaceful holiday. In Belgrade, the Roman Catholic bishop whose diocese covers most of Serbia urged that “forgiveness and reconciliation” is the only way to overcome the misery in the troubled Balkan region. Butin his Christmasinterview to the Belgrade daily Blic, Archbishop France Perkosaid that for now hesees “no sincere wish for reconciliation on any of the sides.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa said in a sermonin Washington,D.C., that the Christmas story of God's gift to the world reminded him ofa Stevie Wonder song. “It’s as if he called gently @ Cuban Celebration narrow streets, where hun- Singing Christmas carols along Havana’s Malecon coastal boulevard, thousands of Roman Catholics on Satur- smiled from the windows of their homes in dilapidated ° day held the largest religious processionofits kind since the cried out. “Thank you!” early years of the 1959 Cuban Revolution. The procession woundits way through Old Havana's dreds of people waved and buildings. i “Merry Christmas,” several Cuba was officially atheist ° from the early 1960s until 1992, and religious believers were banned from theparty, the mil- ” itary and several professions. and silently to you and to me: t just a to say I love you,’ Tutu sai and tomorrow — must be the Gan Elizabeth Il commended ity andall the greatreligions.” InIstanbul, Turkey, the spiritual leader of the world’s Ortho- a simple rule — love thy neighbor — to her people in her Christmas message of caring for others, the message at the heart of Christian- Day address. “The future is not only about dox Christians, Ecumenical Patriarch BartholomewI,called the faithful “to the knowledge of orthelatest fashion, important as these maybe,” the queensaid. “At the centerofall our lives — today Christ, to vigilance, repentance, prayer, ascetic striving aad new gadgets, modern technology sobriety.” Lancomeintroduces ‘Andrew Medichini/The Associated Press Pope Opens Millennium Celebration Pope John PaulII walks through the bronze Holy Door of St. Peter's _ Basilica at the Vatican late Christmas Eve,leading the Roman Catholie Church into Christianity’s third millennium, adream ofhis papacy. 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