Pope Francis is travelling to Mongolia this week to minister to one of the world s tiniest and newest Catholic communities, the first-ever visit by a Roman pontiff to the East Asian country
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VATICAN CITY (AP) When Pope Francis travels to Mongolia this week, he will in some ways be completing a mission begun by the 13th-century Pope Innocent IV, who dispatched emissaries east to ascertain the intentions of the rapidly expanding Mongol Empire and beseech its leaders to halt the bloodshed and convert. Those medieval exchanges […]