Pope could go to Asia-Pacific at end of summer 2024 aleteia.org
Although there is no official confirmation from the Holy See, two Indonesian ministers this week have told news outlets that Pope Francis is planning a trip to the country. In an interview with America magazine published in March 2024, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican’s “Foreign Minister,” said that the Pope was planning to visit Indonesia, Singapore, Timor Leste, and Papua New Guinea in early September.
Indonesia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Retno Marsudi, told Reuters on April 3, 2024, that the Pontiff “plans to visit Indonesia” and that the country was “currently preparing everything” but she did not specify dates. UCANews reported a couple of days earlier that the Minister of Religious Affairs, Yaqut Cholil Quomas, said in a March 30 statement that the Pontiff is scheduled to visit the Southeast Asian country on September 3…
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