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Francis is only the second pope to visit Singapore, following a brief 5-hour layover by the late John Paul II in 1986. The country counts about 210,000 Catholics among its 5.92 million people ...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Pope Francis on Thursday urged political leaders in Singapore, a leading global financial hub, to seek fair wages for the country's million-plus lower-paid foreign workers. In ...
Francis, 87, arrives in Singapore on Wednesday and stays from 11 to 13 September on the last leg of the longest trip of his papacy despite concerns about his health.
He is the first pope since Pope Pius X to live outside the papal apartments. [157] Francis still appears at the window of the Apostolic Palace for the Sunday Angelus. [158] As a Jesuit pope, Francis has been "making clear that a fundamental task of the faithful is not so much to follow rules but to discern what God is calling them to do.
After departing the airport, Pope Francis hold a meeting with some Jesuits at Saint Francis Xavier Retreat Centre. [8] On 12 September 2024, Pope Francis visited the Singapore Parliament, where he received a welcome ceremony and met with both President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong. [9]
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 beefing-up of security will coincide with a visit by Pope Francis to the city-state from Wednesday to Friday, during which a papal mass will be held for 50,000 attendees.
On 25 March 2014, Pope Francis named Zalewski titular archbishop of Africa [a] and Apostolic Nuncio to Zimbabwe. [2] He received his episcopal consecration from Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State, on 31 May. On 21 May 2018, Pope Francis named him Apostolic Nuncio to Singapore and Non-Residential Papal Representative to Vietnam. [3]