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Pope Francis arrives May 12 at Monte Real air base in Leiria, Portugal. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Pope Francis is planning to travel abroad again in the second half of this year, starting with visits to Hungary and Slovakia in September. He also hopes to visit Greece and Cyprus in November and may even go to Glasgow that same month for the international meeting on climate change, known as COP26. All of this, of course, depends on the coronavirus pandemic being under adequate control.
Francis has already made 33 foreign trips and visited 52 countries since his election as pope on March 13, 2013. He is the second-most-traveled pope in history after St. John Paul II, who made 104 foreign trips and visited 129 countries in his more than 26-year pontificate. But Francis is moving at a quicker pace than his Polish predecessor.
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Pope Francis Announces Plans to Visit Hungary Next September
9 Mar 2021
ROME Pope Francis told reporters aboard the papal plane returning from Iraq he plans to visit Budapest in September to celebrate the closing Mass of the International Eucharistic Congress, Vatican News reported Tuesday.
On Monday, Budapest’s Catholic archbishop, Cardinal Peter Erdo, said that the pope was originally slated to attend the 2020 International Eucharistic Congress, an annual gathering taking place in cities around the world, but the event was canceled for health reasons.
“We are pleased to learn that the Holy Father has announced his decision to come to Budapest for the closing Mass of the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress,” Cardinal Erdo said in a statement on behalf of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference (HCBC).
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