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Singapore News - Singapore is in talks with the Vatican about a proposed visit by Pope Francis, which is expected to happen in September. “Singapore welcomes a visit by Pope Francis,” a Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman said on April 2 in response to queries from The Straits. Read more at www.tnp.sg
SINGAPORE - Pope Francis is expected to visit Singapore in September, almost 40 years after the late Pope John Paul II drew thousands of Roman Catholics during a brief stopover in 1986. The de facto Vatican foreign minister, Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, speaking on March 26 to the America magazine’s Vatican correspondent Gerald O’Connell, said the pontiff plans to travel.