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Pope Francis visits remote town in Papua New Guinea
Pope Francis visited one of the most remote outposts of the Catholic Church on Sunday. On the third day of his trip to the Pacific state of Papua New Guinea, the 87-year-old traveled to the town ...
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Pope Francis enters Papua New Guinea's remote jungles with humanitarian aid and toys
VANIMO, Papua New Guinea — Pope Francis traveled to the remote ... including animism and sorcery. Francis' visit to Vanimo was the highlight of his visit to Papua New Guinea, the second leg ...
Pope approves canonisation of Peter To Rot, who will be PNG's first saint
Pope Francis approves the canonisation of Peter To Rot as PNG's first saint, not long after being released from hospital.
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Huge crowd of 100,000 attends Pope Francis’s last mass in Indonesia before he heads to Papua New Guinea
Francis becomes only the second pope to visit Papua New Guinea, after St John Paul II touched down in 1984 during one of his lengthy, globetrotting voyages. Then, John Paul paid tribute to the ...
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Papua New Guinea prepares for rare papal visit
PORT MORESBY: Over mountains, by air, and by sea, pilgrims flocked to Papua New Guinea's capital ahead of Pope Francis's arrival on Friday (Sept 6) on a landmark four-day visit. Once-dusty roads ...