Pope trip to Luxembourg, Belgium confirmed for September, 2 weeks after challenging Asia visit
Release time：2024-05-21 12:09:13 Source：Global Graph news portal
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has added a stop in Luxembourg to a trip to Belgium in September, a three-day visit that will come as he is recovering from a much longer and challenging trip to Asia.
The Vatican on Monday announced the Sept. 26-29 dates of the planned trip, saying Francis would first stop in Luxembourg and then travel onto Brussels, Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium.
Belgium’s bishops had previously announced that Francis was coming to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the country’s two main Catholic universities. Francis’ stop in Luxembourg is apparently something of a nod to Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, the Jesuit archbishop of Luxembourg who is playing a major role in Francis’ big synod, a years-long reform project for the Catholic Church.
The Luxembourg and Belgium visit is scheduled to begin less than two weeks after Francis returns from the longest and most challenging foreign trip of his pontificate, a Sept. 2-13 voyage to Indonesia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Singapore.
Related articles
- Analysis: Larson enters conversation with Verstappen as best drivers in the world
- Xi Congratulates Tamas Sulyok on Election as Hungarian President
- More efforts called on to energize consumption
- Embassy welcomes 'home' overseas Chinese
- The unstoppable duo of Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos
- China's 1st domestically made polar icebreaker Xuelong 2 leaves HKSAR for Shanghai
- Scholars of South Sudan, China pledge collaboration for mutual development
- Switzerland to facilitate Chinese travel: Foreign Minister
- Red Lobster seeks bankruptcy protection after closing some restaurants
- Xi Focus: Xi Stresses Enhancing Guarantee Ability of Land Element for High
- I was 'brokefished' by my friend for £400
- Romanian artists share China travel experiences
- President Xi Jinping's Letter Presented to American Students
- Feature: Remote Ugandan villages visualize better future with Chinese oil works in backyard
- 'Constantly learning' Imanaga off to impressive start with the Chicago Cubs
- Domestic tourism industry set for 'full recovery' by summer
- China, Brazil agree on multiple
- Fourth Volume of 'Xi Jinping: The Governance of China' Published in Ethnic
- Mohammad Mokhber: Who is Iran’s acting president?
- Xi Focus: Xi stresses healthy, high
Random recommendation