September 24, 2001 - 23:49 AMT
JOHN PAUL II ARRIVING IN YEREVAN TOMORROW
Tomorrow Pope John Paul II will arrive in Yerevan to participate in the festivities dedicated to the 1700-th anniversary of adoption of Christianity as the state religion of Armenia. He will visit the country not as the head of the Roman Catholic Church, but as head of the state of Vatican. Within the framework of the visit John Paul II will visit the Holy See of Echmiadzin and Khor Virap cloister, will lay wreaths to the memorial of the victims of the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey and will celebrate an ecumenical mass together with Catholicos Garegin II in Saint Grigor Enlightener temple opened yesterday. The Pope will return to Rome September 27.