AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, MAY 8, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

- Louis Michel, vice-prime minister and foreign minister of Belgium, accompanied by an entourage.
- Ivica Racan, president of the Croatian council of ministers, accompanied by an entourage.
- His Beatitude Raphael I Bidawid, patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Iraq.

On Saturday May 6, he received in separate audiences:

- Adolf Ogi, president of Switzerland, accompanied by an entourage.
- Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, accompanied by Archbishop Csaba Ternyak, secretary of the same congregation.
- Cardinal Lucas Moreira Neves O.P., prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.

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