Pope John Paul II arrived in Egypt for the first of his millennium year pilgrimages to biblical sites. On Saturday, the pope is scheduled to visit a nearly 1,500-year-old Greek Orthodox monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, 150 miles southeast of Cairo.
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