Which countries will Pope Francis visit in 2022?

Pope Francis departs Rome for Iraq on March 5, 2021. / Vatican Media.Vatican City, Jan 5, 2022 / 13:00 pm (CNA).As the new year begins amid a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in many parts of the world, Pope Francis has no official international trips confirmed for 2022. But he has expressed an interest in visiting several countries in the new year.At the age of 85, however, it is unlikely that the pope will resume the grueling travel schedule that characterized his pre-pandemic papacy. Pope Francis has already traveled to more than 50 countries during his almost nine-year pontificate, 11 of which he visited in 2019.After the outbreak of COVID-19 put his papal travel schedule on hold for more than a year, Francis made history as the first pope to visit Iraq when he resumed international travel in March 2021. This was followed by apostolic journeys to Greece, Cyprus, Slovakia, and Budapest for the International Eucharistic Congress.However, there are still some canceled pap...

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