Papal visit

Pope Francis to visit Thailand, Japan in November

Pope Francis will travel to Thailand in November, the Vatican said Friday, in a visit to Asia that will sweep in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which were both decimated by atomic bombs in 1945.It has been nearly four decades since a pontiff visited Thailand and Japan, both Buddhist-majority countries.The late Pope John Paul II went to Japan – where Shinto and Buddhism are the main religions – in 1981, and he travelled to Thailand three years later where he met with the late Ki

14 September 2019
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