Source: Yahoo! News

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1535&ncid=1535&e=20&u=/a

On November 19, 2003 Yahoo! News posted an Associated Press story that reported, "Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will meet Pope John Paul II on November 27 during a visit to Italy, his spokesman Tenzin Taklha has said. The Tibetan leader said October 19 on a visit to Prague that he hoped to meet soon with the Polish-born pope, explaining: 'Both of us have experience with atheist and totalitarian regimes.' The Dalai Lama last met the pope in October 1999, when 20 religious leaders issued a joint call against the use of religion in fuelling violence."