CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Pope John Paul's pilgrimage to the Holy Land takes him to a Palestinian refugee camp next. Earlier, the pope flew in an Israeli Black Hawk helicopter from Jerusalem to Bethlehem where he said mass in Manger Square. CNN's Jerrold Kessel is at the refugee camp near Bethlehem -- Jerrold.</s>JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Carol. Pope John Paul has been realizing his own personal dream of coming on this spiritual journey to the Holy Land. Here, dreams of a different sort, part of a maze and a mine field of passions that swirl around this pilgrimage. Here in this refugee camp, at the entrance to it, a memorial shaped in the form of historic Palestine. And beneath it are tents that have been set up as a symbol which the local refugees here, who come from villages inside what is now Israel from the 1948 Arab-Israel War, are hoping that when the Pope drives by through the streets of their refugee camp, this will help them put their claim to return to their homes back on their maps, back on the world's map. Earlier today in Bethlehem when the pope arrived here in the Palestinian-controlled territory, he delivered an impassioned appeal, a personal plea for a Palestinian homeland here; and this as he took on a personal tone of his spiritual mission here and adopted a political tone, too. He was given an ecstatic welcome in the streets of Bethlehem where he engaged in a mass outside the Church of the Nativity, and where he said that Bethlehem lay at the heart of this spiritual pilgrimage of his. But if, above all, this is a personal pilgrimage, there will be moments when there are political and other sensitivities that will very much intrude on it. And this, above all, is that place, one of those places, because this is one of the emotional -- most emotional issues that divide Israelis and Palestinians, the question of Palestinian refugees. I'm Jerrold Kessel, CNN, at the Dheisheh refugee camp on the West Bank. Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNmoney.com The Web
The Pope in the Holy Land: Pilgrimage Continues at Palestinian Refugee Camp