The Vatican Press Office has released Francis' itinerary for his September trip to Asia and Oceania. Francis, 87, plans to visit four countries in less than two weeks (2-13 September):
Indonesia, Papua New
Guinea, East Timor and Singapore.
In Jakarta, Francis will preside
over an inter-religion meeting at the capital's Istiqlal Mosque.
Representatives of five false religions - Islam, Protestantism,
Buddhism, Hinduism and Confucianism - will join him.
Francis is also
expected to walk through the "Tunnel of Friendship" built by the
Indonesian authorities in 2020. It connects the great mosque with the
neo-Gothic Catholic cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption.
Francis will be the third Pope to visit Muslim-majority Indonesia, after Paul VI in 1970 and John Paul II in 1989.
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