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Pope Francis's visit to Mongolia (Mongolian: Пап Францисын Монгол дахь айлчлал) took place between 31 August and 4 September 2023. It was the first visit by a pope to Mongolia , which as of 2023 had just 1,500 Catholics, [ 1 ] from a total Christian population of 42,859 as of 2020.
Pope Francis arrived in Mongolia on Friday morning to encourage one of the world’s smallest and newest Catholic communities. It's the first time a pope has visited the landlocked Asian country ...
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis headed to Mongolia on Thursday, a predominantly Buddhist country with just 1,450 Catholics, which the Vatican hopes can act as a facilitator to improve ...
Pope Francis on Saturday praised Mongolia’s tradition of religious freedom dating to the times of its founder, Genghis Khan, as he opened the first-ever papal visit to the Asian nation with a ...
Pope Francis is traveling to Mongolia at the end of the summer, a visit that will be a first for a pontiff and one rich in geopolitical significance given its proximity to Russia and China. The ...
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 Catholic Church in Mongolia is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. There were approximately 1,300 Catholics [ 1 ] in the country in 2017; they were served by three churches in the capital Ulaanbaatar plus churches in Darkhan , Arvaikheer , Erdenet and mission stations that may grow into ...
Pope Francis formally began his 8,000-kilometer trip to Mongolia on Saturday, a country sandwiched between Russia and China that has a tiny Catholic population. A 10-hour flight to meet 1,500 ...