an hour agoPope Francis, first to go to the Arabian Peninsula
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(7 years ago)Pope Franescu launches his three-day trip to His 27th United Arab Emirates today, which brings the number of seats visited by the head of the Holy See to 41. In Abu Dhabi, the country's capital, where it will stay until Tuesday, Francescu, the first pope on the Arabian Peninsula, will [...]
In Abu Dhabi, the country's capital, where it will stay until Tuesday, Francescu, the first pope in the Arabian Peninsula, will attend tomorrow's religious meeting on the Human Brotherhood, along with 700 leaders of different religious faiths, beside Al-Azhari's great imam, Ahmad Al-Tayeb.
On Tuesday he will meet the local Catholic community, composed especially of immigrant workers from the Philippines and India, in a mass considered the first of such sizes throughout the Arabian Peninsula.
Today, the pope leaves Rome at 1: 00 p.m. and is expected to arrive at Abu Dhabi at 10: 00 a.m. local time.
He will be received by the heir prince, the sheik Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahian.
