Pope makes first visit to Bulgaria

Friday, May 24, 2002

SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Closing another chapter of the Cold War, Pope John Paul II began a visit to this former communist country once implicated in a 1981 attempt to kill him and assured the Bulgarian people he has "never ceased" to love them.

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