VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis will travel to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates Dec. 1-3 to participate in the U.N. Climate Change Conference, the Vatican press office confirmed. In an interview broadcast in Italy Nov. 1, the pope had said
Asked by an Argentine reporter what important trips remain pending in his pontificate, the pope said "I would like to go" to Argentina in an interview released Oct. 16. "Talking a bit farther away, Papua New Guinea is still left."
He added that
With just four main events and accompanying speeches, "I hope I have the courage to say everything I have to say," he told the journalists flying with him from Rome for the Sept. 22-23 trip.
What he said, in essence, has been the
Speaking to reporters flying with him to Marseille, the pope said the trip was meant to bring the world's attention to "a problem that worries me, which is the problem of the Mediterranean."
"The exploitation of migrants is criminal" as is their detention,
Greeted with "aaruul," a dried yogurt cheese, which he tried, Pope Francis arrived in Ulaanbaatar for a four-day visit.
After the nine-hour, overnight flight from Rome, the pope's arrival Sept. 1 was low key. Battsetseg Batmunkh, Mongolia's foreign minister, met him at Chinggis
Pope Francis continually calls Catholics to go to the "peripheries," and that is exactly what he will do Aug. 31 when he boards a plane to Mongolia.
Bordering both Russia and China, Mongolia is one of the few countries St. John Paul II
After a five-day trip to Portugal, which recently came to terms with its own clerical sex abuse crisis, Pope Francis said the Catholic Church must abandon its practice of covering up abuse and instead be "very open" about how it is confronting
Pope Francis' upcoming trip to Mongolia will draw the Catholic Church's attention to the "joy" and "simplicity" with which Mongolians live their faith as missionary disciples, the cardinal responsible for the country's 1,450 Catholics said.
"This visit will manifest the attention that the
During his recent trip to Hungary, Pope Francis spoke clearly about transgenderism and abortion. But he also made note of the political tension nations face. In the most underreported speech from Pope Francis’s April visit to Budapest, the pope said “How much
Praising the piety and charity of Hungarian Christians and their commitment to supporting traditional family life, Pope Francis said Christ also calls them to open their hearts -- and perhaps their borders -- to others in need.
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