Vatican

Pope urges Thailand to respect prostitutes

Pope Francis led an impassioned mass for tens of thousands of emotional worshippers at a packed Bangkok stadium Thursday, urging respect for prostitutes and trafficking victims in a part of the world where sex work is rampant.The remarks came at the end of a whirlwind day of meetings for Pope Francis, who is on his first trip to Buddhist-majority Thailand where he is carrying a message of religious harmony and peace.He heads to Japan next, visiting the twin atomic bombs sites of Nagasaki and

22 November 2019
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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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