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Pastoral visits of Pope Francis. This is a list of pastoral visits of Pope Francis.His visit to the Philippines in January 2015 included the largest papal event in history with around 6–7 million attendees in his final Mass at Manila, surpassing the then-largest papal event at World Youth Day 1995 in the same venue twenty years earlier.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Vatican City was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The Holy See reported the first case of infection in Vatican City on 7 March 2020. [ 2 ]
On 1980 a fountain was placed on the middle of the square and after the Fall of communism in Albania it was named after Mother Teresa and a statue of her was placed on the east side of the square. Both the statue and the fountain were later removed, after the restoration of the square in 2014 caused by the preparations for the Pope Francis ...
Pope John Paul II was the first Pope to visit Albania, which took place immediately after the fall of communism [113] Pope Francis visited Albania on 24 September 2014, which was the first nation in Europe he has visited [citation needed] Albania is home to 520,000 Roman Catholics, and is the second largest religion in the country, after Islam ...
Pope Francis is welcomed at Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Indonesia on Sept. 3, 2024. Credit - Vatican Media/Getty Images. P ope Francis has embarked on the 45th and longest ...
On January 10, 2022, Pope Francis issued a statement on COVID-19 vaccines. He stated that COVID-19 vaccination was a "moral obligation" and denounced "how people had been swayed by 'baseless information' to refuse one of the most effective measures to save lives". [20] [21] [22]
Two assassination attempts made against Pope Francis when he made a historic visit to northern Iraq were foiled by British spies and police inside the country.
Pope Francis is pressing ahead with a four-day visit to Luxembourg and Belgium despite coming down with a mild flu, in a trip expected to highlight the needs of migrants and to feature a meeting ...