On the final leg of his 12-day journey to the East, Pope Francis moved from three countries struggling with poverty to a world of opulence in Singapore, the world’s third-largest financial hub.
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With Pope Francis in Timor Leste
Veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell reports live from Dili, where Pope Francis continues his longest international visit to date: a two-week tour of Southeast Asia and Oceania.
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Pope Francis in Singapore: visiting a small but influential Catholic Church
Pope Francis is “popular among Catholics here, but may also be [seen as] influential among the general public, which sees him as an international leader for peace, harmony and equality,” Francis Lim, S.J., said.
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Pope Francis celebrates Mass for nearly half the population of Timor Leste
Some 600,000 Catholics in Timor Leste, almost half the population of the majority-Catholic country, attended the Mass celebrated by Pope Francis on the evening of Sept. 10.
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A brief history of Timor Leste, the most Catholic country in Asia
Pope Francis is the first pope to visit Timor Leste since the country won independence in 2002.
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Podcast: On the ground with Pope Francis in Indonesia
In the season premiere of ‘Inside the Vatican,’ veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell reports from Jakarta, Indonesia, on the pope’s visit there.
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Pope Francis’ visit to Indonesia shores up interfaith tolerance in world’s most populous Muslim nation
Indonesia sees itself as a site of calm and tolerance during a time when different faiths come into ruinous conflict in other nations, a self-image undermined by flare-ups of religiously motivated violence.
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In Papua New Guinea, Pope Francis will meet with missionaries from his homeland Argentina
On the second leg of his 12-day journey to four countries, Pope Francis will take a six-hour flight Friday morning, Sept. 6, Indonesia to Papua New Guinea, a predominantly Christian country in Oceania.
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At a mosque in Indonesia, Pope Francis and the Grand Imam reach another milestone in Catholic-Muslim dialogue
During his visit to Indonesia, Pope Francis and the grand imam of the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta signed the ”Joint Declaration of Istiqlal 2024,” which aims at “fostering religious harmony for the sake of humanity.”
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Jakarta’s Grand Imam ‘very much hopes’ Pope Francis will enter Istiqlal Mosque, the largest in Southeast Asia
Pope Francis will arrive at Jakarta’s Istiqlal Mosque, the biggest mosque in Southeast Asia, tomorrow morning, where he will sign an important document with the grand imam, Nasaruddin Umar.