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Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults
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Dignitaries attending Pope John Paul II's funeral
ALBANIA: President Alfred Moisiu, Prime Minister Fatos Nano
ARAB LEAGUE: Secretary-General Amr Moussa
ARGENTINA: Vice President Daniel Scioli, Foreign Minister Rafael Bielsa
ARMENIA: Prime Minister Andranik Markarian
AUSTRALIA: Governor General Michael Jeffery
AUSTRIA: President Heinz Fischer, Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel, Parliament Speaker Andreas Khol
BANGLADESH: Food and Disaster Management Minister Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf
BELGIUM: King Albert II and Queen Paola, Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt
BOLIVIA: President Carlos Mesa
BRAZIL: President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
BRITAIN: Prince Charles, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams
BULGARIA: President Georgi Parvanov
CANADA: Prime Minister Paul Martin
CHILE: Foreign Minister Ignacio Walker
COLOMBIA: Vice President Francisco Santos and his wife, Maria Victoria.
COSTA RICA: President Abel Pacheco
COUNCIL OF EUROPE: Daniel Rotfeld, chairman of committee of ministers; Rene van der Linden, chairman of Parliamentary Assembly; Giovanni di Stasi, chairman council's body overseeing local authorities
CROATIA: President Stipe Mesic, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader
CUBA: National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon, Caridad Diego, head of religious affairs for Communist Party
CZECH REPUBLIC: President Vaclav Klaus, Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda
DENMARK: Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: First lady Margarita Cedeno, Secretary of Education Alejandrina German
ECUADOR: President Lucio Gutierrez
EL SALVADOR: Foreign Minister Francisco Lainez, first lady Ana Ligia Mixco de Saca, Interior Minister Rene Figueroa
EGYPT: Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni
ESTONIA: President Arnold Ruutel
ETHIOPIA: Abune Paulos, head of the Orthodox church
EUROPEAN UNION: European Parliament President Josep Borrell; European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and his wife, Commission Vice-President Franco Frattini, External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Regional Policy Commissioner Danuta Huebner.
FINLAND: Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen
FRANCE: President Jacques Chirac and his wife, Bernadette
GERMANY: Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, President Horst Koehler
GUATEMALA: President Oscar Berger and first lady Wendy de Berger, Foreign Minister Jorge Briz, Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu
HAITI: Interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue
HONDURAS: President Ricardo Maduro
HUNGARY: President Ferenc Madl and his wife, Dalma, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, Parliamentary Speaker Katalin Szili, former Prime Minister Viktor Orban
INDIA: Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
INDONESIA: Religious Minister Alwi Shihab
IRAN: President Mohammad Khatami
IRELAND: President Mary McAleese, Prime Minister Bertie Ahern
ISRAEL: Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, Haifa Chief Rabbi Shear-Yishuv Cohen
JAPAN: Former Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi
JORDAN: King Abdullah II
KENYA: Foreign Minister Chirau Ali Makwere
LATVIA: President Vaira Vike-Freiberga
LEBANON: President Emile Lahoud, Prime Minister Omar Karami, Marounite Christian patriarch Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir
LESOTHO: King Letsie III, Foreign Minister Monyane Moleleki
LIECHTENSTEIN: Prince Hans-Adam II, Princess Marie and Prince Nicholas
LITHUANIA: President Valdas Adamkus
LUXEMBOURG: Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa, Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker
MEXICO: President Vicente Fox
MYANMAR: Ambassador Khin Maung Aye, Archbishop Charles Bo
NETHERLANDS: Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende
NEW ZEALAND: Governor General Dame Silvia Cartwright
NICARAGUA: President Enrique Bolanos, Foreign Minister Norman Caldera
NORWAY: Queen Sonja, Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik
PAKISTAN: Minister for Religious Affairs Mohammed Ijaz-ul Haq
PANAMA: First lady Vivian Fernandez de Torrijos
PARAGUAY: Foreign Minister Leila Rachid
PHILIPPINES: President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
POLAND: President Aleksander Kwasniewski and his wife, Prime Minister Marek Belka, Foreign Minister Daniel Rotfeld, former President Lech Walesa
PORTUGAL: President Jorge Sampaio and first lady Maria Jose Ritta, Foreign Minister Diogo Freitas do Amaral, former President Gen. Antonio Ramalho Eanes
ROMANIA: President Traian Basescu, Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu
RUSSIA: Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov and Metropolitan Kirill, foreign minister for the Russian Orthodox Church
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO: Serbia-Montenegro President Svetozar Marovic, Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic, Serbian President Boris Tadic, Montenegro President Filip Vujanovic; Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova, Kosovo Prime Minister Bajram Kosumi and Kosov parliament head Nexhat Daci
SLOVAKIA: President Ivan Gasparovic, Parliament Chairman Pavol Hrusovsky, Foreign Minister Eduard Kukan
SOUTH AFRICA: Deputy President Jacob Zuma, former President Nelson Mandela
SOUTH KOREA: Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan
SPAIN: King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
SRI LANKA: Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse
SWEDEN: Prime Minister Goeran Persson
SWITZERLAND: President Samuel Schmid
SYRIA: President Bashar Assad
TAIWAN: President Chen Shui-bian.
TANZANIA: Minister for Cooperative Development George Kahama
THAILAND: Deputy Prime Minister Surakiart Sathirathai
TURKEY: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, State Minister Mehmet Aydin, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, Patriarch Mesrob II
UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Kofi Annan
UNITED STATES: President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
URUGUAY: First Lady Maria Auxiliadora Delgado de Vazquez
VENEZUELA: Foreign Relations Minister Ali Rodriguez, Planning Minister Jorge Giordanni