Pope Francis made a surprise announcement after praying the Sunday Angelus in St. Peter's Square. <\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The Pope will visit the capital of Slovakia, Bratislava, as well as the cities of Pre\u0161ov, Ko\u0161ice and \u0160a\u0161tin. <\/p>\n After his trip to Iraq, Pope Francis announced that he will close the International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest before going to Slovakia. <\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> Although the trip had already been hinted at on the papal plane, the Pope surprised many Slovaks by announcing he will spend nearly four days in their country. <\/p>\n Pope John Paul II visited both Hungary and Slovakia twice throughout his papacy. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n JM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 7, 2021. The Pope will spend nearly four days in Slovakia after closing the International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/J73ejZoC2Bw","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelusviaggieng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelusviaggiint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cI am happy to announce that from the 12th to 15th of September, God willing, I will travel to Slovakia to make a pastoral visit. The Slovaks here are happy!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u201cI will go to Hungary for the final Mass of the Eucharistic Congress. Not a visit to the country, but I will go to the Mass. But Budapest is a two-hour drive from Bratislava. Why not pay a visit to the Slovakians too?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n