1.   In Bethlehem, motorists flew the yellow-and-white Vatican flags from stands mounted in car windows.

2.   Msgr. Boulos Marcuzzo was on his way to visit an elderly, sick priest, driving in a diplomatic car bearing a Vatican flag, when he was stopped.

3.   The car, which carried diplomatic license plates and a Vatican flag, was not hit.

4.   When the pope arrives in this city on Wednesday afternoon, thousands of people waving Cuban and Vatican flags will be waiting for him.

5.   When Pope John Paul II arrives in this city on Wednesday afternoon, thousands of people waving Cuban and Vatican flags will be waiting for him.

6.   Other faithful waved Vatican flags or wore the yellow-and-white Vatican colors.

7.   Among his greeters at Newark this afternoon were Catholic school students, who stood on the tarmac for several hours in an intermittent drizzle, clutching small Vatican flags.

8.   At times, the vehicle was engulfed by worshipers waving yellow-and-white Vatican flags.

9.   Crowds standing in a tropical downpour waved yellow-and-white Vatican flags and pounded sticks as the papal motorcade passed.

10.   Crowds cheered and waved Vatican flags as the papal motorcade drove through the streets.