`Advance dialogue' in 2000

Vatican City - Celebrations marking the millennium would have two centres, the Vatican and the Holy Land, Pope John Paul II said…

Vatican City - Celebrations marking the millennium would have two centres, the Vatican and the Holy Land, Pope John Paul II said in a papal bull issued yesterday. "May the jubilee serve to advance mutual dialogue until the day when all of us together, Jews, Christians and Muslims will exchange the greeting of peace in Jerusalem," it says.

Jonathan Kwitny, a writer best known as the biographer of Pope John Paul II for his book Man of the Century, has died of cancer in New York after a brief illness, a friend said yesterday.