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The Pope's Funeral
Published: 11:04 PM GMT, 08.04.2005 Fri
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Today marks the biggest ever ceremony in the history of the Roman Empire.
World leaders to attend Pope's funeral
Political leaders from across the globe, including United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, will gather in Rome for the funeral of Pope John Paul II on Friday.
Here is a list of those who say they will attend, grouped by geographical area.
AFRICA
Angola: President Jose Eduardo dos Santos
Cameroon: President Paul Biya
Democratic Republic of Congo: President Joseph Kabila
Equatorial Guinea: President Teodoro Obiang Nguema
Ghana: President John Kufour
Kenya: Foreign Minister Chirau Ali Makwere
Lesotho: King Letsie III
Mauritius: Prime Minister Paul Berenger
Mozambique: Armando Guebuza
Nigeria: President Olusegun Obasanjo
Senegal: President Abdoulaye Wade
South Africa: Deputy President Jacob Zuma
Ugada: Vice-President Gilbert Bukenya
Zimbabwe: President Robert Mugabe
AMERICAS
Argentina: Vice-President Daniel Scioli, Foreign Minister Rafael Bielsa
Bolivia: President Carlos Mesa
Brazil: President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Canada: Prime Minister Paul Martin
Chile: Foreign Minister Ignacio Walker
Colombia: Vice-President Francisco Santos
Costa Rica: President Abel Pacheco
Cuba: Parliament Speaker Ricardo Alarcon
Ecuador: President Lucio Gutierrez, Foreign Minister Patricio Zuquilanda
El Salvador: Foreign Minister Francisco Lainez
Guatemala: President Oscar Berger, Foreign Minister Jorge Briz
Haiti: Prime Minister Gerald Latortue
Honduras: President Ricardo Maduro
Mexico: President Vicente Fox
Nicaragua: President Enrique Bolanos
Panama: First Lady Vivian Fernandez de Torrijos
Paraguay: Vice President Luis Castiglioni
Peru: Parliament speaker Antero Flores Araoz, Foreign Minister Manuel Rodriguez, Justice Minister Eduardo Salhuana
United States: President George W Bush
Uruguay: First Lady Maria Auxiliadora Delgado de Vasquez
Venezuela: Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez
ASIA-PACIFIC
Australia: Governor General Michael Jeffery
Indonesia: Welfare Minister Alwi Shihab, Religious Affairs Minister Maftuh Basyuni
Japan: Former Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi
New Zealand: Governor General Silvia Cartwright
Philippines: President Gloria Arroyo
Taiwan: President Chen Shui-bian
EUROPE
Albania: Prime Minister Fatos Nano, President Alfred Moisiu
Armenia: Prime Minister Andranik Markaryan
Austria: President Heinz Fischer, Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel
Belgium: King Albert II and Queen Paola, Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt
Bosnia: Chairman of the State Presidency Borislav Paravac
Bulgaria: President Georgi Parvanov
Croatia: President Stipe Mesic, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader
Czech Republic: President Vaclav Klaus, Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda
Cyprus: President Tassos Papadopoulos
Denmark: Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Estonia: President Arnold Ruutel
European Union: Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso
Finland: Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen
France: President Jacques Chirac
Germany: President Horst Koehler, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder
Greece: President Carolos Papoulias
Hungary: President Ferenc Madl, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany
Ireland: President Mary McAleese, Prime Minister Bertie Ahern
Italy: President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
Latvia: President Vaira Vike-Freiberga
Lithuania: President Valdas Adamkus
Luxembourg: Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa, Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker
Malta: President Edward Fenech Adami, Prime Minister Dr Lawrence Gonzi
Nato: Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
The Netherlands: Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende
Norway: Queen Sonja, Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik
Poland: President Aleksander Kwasniewski, Prime Minister Marek Belka, former President Lech Walesa
Portugal: President Jorge Sampaio, Foreign Minister Diogo Freitas do Amaral
Romania: President Traian Basescu, Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu
Russia: Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov
Serbia-Montenegro: President Svetozar Marovic, Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic, President Filip Vujanovic (Montenegro)
Slovakia: President Ivan Gasparovic
Slovenia: President Janez Drnovsek, Prime Minister Janez Jansa
Spain: King Juan Carlos, Queen Sofia, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Sweden: King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia
Switzerland: President Samuel Schmid
Turkey: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Ukraine: President Viktor Yushchenko
United Kingdom: Prince Charles, Prime Minister Tony Blair
MIDDLE EAST
Arab League: Secretary General Amr Moussa
Egypt: Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni
Iran: President Mohammad Khatami
Israel: President Moshe Katzav, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom
Jordan: King Abdullah
Lebanon: President Emile Lahoud, Prime Minister Omar Karami, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri
Palestinian Authority: Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei
Syria: President Bashar al-Assad
SOUTH ASIA
Afghanistan: President Hamid Karzai
Bangladesh: Food and Disaster Management Minister Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf
India: Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekawat
Pakistan: Religious Affairs Minister Ejaz-ul Haq
Sri Lanka: Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse, Christian Affairs Minister Milroy Fernando
Just imagine the amount of $$ Millions that is gonna be spended just on security!
…and the 'holy' Pope use to say there are too many people dying of hunger in the third world!
Africa's forgotten and ignored war - CONGO -- just now ON and not a single TV channel mentions it!
Headlines:
Congo rape victims seek solace
The war in Congo, estimated to have killed three million people… and counting!
Insane world we live in isn’t?
More headlines:
A British couple jumped ahead of thousands of pilgrims waiting to see Pope John Paul II lying in state because they were with their five-month-old baby.
Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles will acknowledge "sins and wickedness" at their wedding blessing.
A former security guard at Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch has said he saw the star performing oral sex on a boy in the early 1990s.
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has arrived in Rome for the Pope's funeral on Friday despite a European Union travel ban.
Italy is obliged to let him enter under accords with the Vatican, which is legally a separate state. Mr Mugabe is a Catholic and often attends Mass in Harare's cathedral… and he is supposed to be a criminal!
Where is Saddam Hussein by the way?!
He is going miss the party!
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Lol that is way too close to the bone in this day and age. But hey It's not like I am complaining :)
Have a good one Sean Cody