- Title: CROATIA: POPE JOHN PAUL ARRIVES IN CROATIA
- Date: 10th September 1994
- Summary: ZAGREB, CROATIA (SEPTEMBER 10, 1994) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/SV : AIRCRAFT TAXIING AT ZAGREB AIRPORT (2 SHOTS) 0.07 2. SLV : POPE JOHN PAUL WAVES 0.13 3. SV : PHOTOGRAPHERS 0.16 4. SV : POPE STEPS FROM AIRCRAFT 0.18 5. SV : POPE KISSES URN OF FULL OF CROATIAN EARTH 0.27 6. SV : POPE GREETED BY CROATIAN PRESIDENT FRANJO TUDJMAN 0.38 7. SV : POPE GREETED BY OTHERS (2 SHOTS) 0.46 8 MCU : POPE WAVES TO THE CROWD 0.56 9. SV : PHOTOGAPHERS 0.58 10. GV/SV : POPE (SEATED) POPE COMMENTING ABOUT SARAJEVO (SERBO-CROAT) (2 SHOTS0) 1.20 11. GV/ZOOM: "POPEMOBILE" MOVING PAST CROWDS/POPE WAVING 1.34 12. SV : POLICEMAN ON ROOFTOP 1.38 13. HAS/SV : POPE WAVING ON WAY INTO CATHEDRAL 1.45 14. GV : CROWD INSIDE CATHEDRAL APPLAUDING 1.48 15. SV : INT, POPE MOVING THROUGH CROWD 1.52 16. SV : CROWD WAVING 1.57 17. SLV : POPE STANDING AT ALTAR AND WAVING 2.04 18. GV/HAS : CONGREGATION INSIDE CATHEDRAL 2.07 (SM/MD/PC) Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: ZAGREB, CROATIA
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- Country: Croatia
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- Story Text: Pope John Paul arrived in Croatia on Saturday (September 10) for a 24-hour pilgrimage to appeal for peace and ethnic reconciliation in the war-devastated Balkans.
The pontiff looked weak as a result of a severe leg fracture five months ago. An urn was held up before him so he would not have to kneel and kiss the ground, his customary arrival gesture.
He was greeted at Zagreb airport by Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, Cardinal Franjo Kuharic, top military officers and young Croatians in traditional garb. Church bells rang throughout the land on his arrival.
In an impassioned plea for peace in the Balkans, he urged warring Croats, Serbs and Moslems to cast aside extreme nationalism.
He called himself "a defenceless pilgrim of reconciliation" and, in a message of solidarity, expressed sorrow at having to cancel his visit to the Bosnian capital Sarajevo which he described as "a martyr city'".
The pontiff was making the first papal visit to the tormented region of former Yugoslavia and the first to Croat faithful who embraced Roman Catholicism more than 1,000 years ago.
His visit is intended to mark the 900th anniversary of the Zagreb archdiocese but Croatia's nationalist government clearly views it as a consecration of its independence.
In a service at Zagreb Cathedral, the pope paid tribute to the late Croatian Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac, who died in 1960 after 15 years of imprisonment and house arrest under Yugoslav communism.
An estimated 700,000 people are expected to attend an outdoor mass at Zagreb's main racetrack on Sunday where history's first Slav pope was expected to press warring Croats, Serbs and Moslems to learn to live together again.
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