Vatican City, Jan 19, 2020: A visit from Pope Francis to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and East Timor may happen in September, according to an Indonesian Muslim leader who met with the pontiff mid January. Sheikh Yahya Cholil Staquf leads the 50 million member Nahdlatul Ulama movement, which calls forContinue Reading
Vatican City: The top Catholic official in Bangladesh hopes Pope Francis’s visit there and to Myanmar will bolster moves to alleviate the Rohingya refugee crisis that has put the neighbouring nations in the global spotlight. Despite last week’s deal to return to Myanmar some of the hundreds of thousands ofContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis visits Myanmar next week, a delicate trip for the world’s most senior Christian to a majority Buddhist country accused by Washington of the “ethnic cleansing” of Muslim Rohingya people. He will also visit Bangladesh to where more than 600,000 people have fled from what Amnesty InternationalContinue Reading
Kawkareik: Father William’s 16- strong flock on Myanmar’s eastern border is one of the Catholic Church’s tiniest outposts, but next week they will join a tide of 200,000 faithful in Yangon for a historic mass led by Pope Francis. The Pope, renowned for powerful entreaties for peace no matter howContinue Reading
Manila – Pope Francis flew out of this Catholic bastion in Asia on Monday after a weeklong trip that included a visit to Sri Lanka and drew what Filipino officials says was a record crowd of 6 million faithful in a Manila park where he celebrated Mass. President Benigno AquinoContinue Reading
Colombo – Less than a week after its longtime president was surprisingly voted out of office, Sri Lanka welcomes Pope Francis on Tuesday, with the island nation’s Catholic minority hoping he can help heal the lingering wounds of the country’s 25-year civil war. The war between minority Tamil rebels, whoContinue Reading
Francis’ 7th and longest apostolic visit outside of Italy will also include the canonization of Sri Lanka’s first saintContinue Reading
Vatican City – Pope Francis embarks on his second Asian pilgrimage this coming week, visiting Sri Lanka and the Philippines exactly 20 years after St. John Paul II’s record-making visit to two countries with wildly disparate Catholic populations. Pope Francis will make headlines of his own, drawing millions of faithfulContinue Reading
The Pope will reportedly deliver a total of 11 speechesContinue Reading
Pope Francis returns to Asia for the second time in less than six monthsContinue Reading
