UKRAINE: POPE JOHN PAUL II ARRIVES IN WESTERN TOWN OF LVIV TO BEGIN SECOND LEG OF HIS FIVE DAY VISIT

Record ID: 648221

  • Title: UKRAINE: POPE JOHN PAUL II ARRIVES IN WESTERN TOWN OF LVIV TO BEGIN SECOND LEG OF HIS FIVE DAY VISIT
  • Date: 25th June 2001
  • Summary: LVIV, UKRAINE (JUNE 25, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WS: LVIV TOWN CENTRE/ TRAMS RUNNING 0.08 2. MV: EXTERIORS OF THE GREEK-CATHOLIC CHURCH, DECKED OUT IN UKRAINE NATIONAL FLAG AND GIANT POPE BANNER 0.13 3. WS: LVIV STREET SCENES, PILGRIMS IN TOWN 0.15 4. WS/SCU: VATICAN FLAG AND STATUE OF VIRGIN MARY IN CORNER OF BUILDING (2 SHOTS) 0.26 5. SV: NUNS IN STREET 0.35 6. VARIOUS OF PILGRIMS WEARING VATICAN NECKERCHIEFS (3 SHOTS) 0.59 7. SV'S: WOMAN SELLING VATICAN/POPE FLAGS (2 SHOTS) 1.12 9. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) IVAN YURCHENKO, A LOCAL ARTIST SAYING: "We have a very hard life here (in the Ukraine) and I hope it will be better after the Pope visit. Maybe our country will get more attention, more investment after his visit" 1.28 10. SV: LOCAL CHILDREN WHO HAVE VOLUNTEERED TO HELP PILGRIMS AROUND THEIR TOWN DURING POPE VISIT 1.32 11. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) A COUPLE SPEAKING: 1.50 12. VARIOUS: LAST MINUTE PREPARATIONS AT SITE OF POPE OPEN-AIR MASSES ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY (6 SHOTS) 2.18 LVIV, UKRIANE (JUNE 25, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 13. WIDE OF PEOPLE WAITING 2.24 14. SLV: POPE JOHN PAUL II'S PLANE ARRIVING AT AIRPORT 2.32 15. MV: WOMEN IN NATIONAL COSTUME WAITING ON TARMAC 2.36 16. MV: POPE SLOWLY EMERGES AND WAVES 2.59 17. SLV: CHILDREN IN NATIONAL COSTUMES WAVING AT POPE 3.04 18. VARIOUS OF POPE LEAVING AIRPORT IN POPEMOBILE AND ARRIVING IN LVIV (6 SHOTS) 4.25 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: LVIV, UKRAINE
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Reuters ID: LVAAL9YVU7Q3O4STSXZZJGA8FNUH
  • Story Text: Pope John Paul II has arrived in the western Ukrainian
    town of Lviv where he received a warm welcome at the start of
    the second leg of his five-day visit to the Ukraine.


    The town of Lviv, is Ukraine's nationalist and Catholic
    heartland. On Monday (June 25) there was excitement in the air
    as the people of Lviv prepared to receive the Pope. The
    81-year-old pontiff arrived in Lviv from the capital Kiev later
    on Monday evening.

    The Pope, on a controversial first visit to the Ukraine, has so
    far had a very low key reception in the largely Orthodox country.

    The turnout at the two open-air masses he conducted in Kiev on
    Sunday and Monday were much lower than expected.

    Ukraine's main Orthodox church has accused the Pope of trying to
    seek converts on his visit to the Ukraine. They have been holding
    peaceful prayer vigils to keep the Pope away from their scared
    sites.

    In predominantly Catholic Lviv, there were no such actions
    and the town was decked out in Ukraine national and Vatican
    flags.

    Local people hope that the Pope's visit could help end the
    conflict between Catholic and Orthodox churches and bring some
    good to their country.

    Catholic pilgrims from Ukraine, Russia and neighbouring Poland
    are in Lviv to see the Pope and attend open-air masses on
    Tuesday and Wednesday, the pontiff"s last day in the Ukraine.


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