Pope Francis' schedule for 2019 is already full of international trips. There are five currently confirmed and two others pending confirmation in the coming months.<\/p>\n
As soon as the year begins, the pope is traveling to Panama to participate in World Youth Day. He will be in Panamanian territory from January 23 to 27.<\/p>\n
Just a week after returning from WYD, he will travel to the UAE. He will be there from February 3 to 5 and is only scheduled to visit Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n
Pope Francis will travel to Morocco on March 30 and 31. It will be a short, two-day trip in which he will visit Rabat and Casablanca.<\/p>\n
The pope is traveling to these two eminently Muslim countries to strengthen interreligious dialogue, on the 800th anniversary of another historic visit: that of St. Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt, Al-Malik al-K\u0101mil. <\/p>\n
In May, he will make two trips. The first will be from 5 to 7 in Bulgaria and Macedonia, with the motto 'Peace on Earth.' There he will visit Skopje, St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta's hometown. <\/p>\n
The second will be to Romania, from May 31 to June 2. He visit Bucharest, Ia\u015fi, Blaj, the Marian Sanctuary of \u015eumuleu Ciuc and Transylvania. <\/p>\n
Among trips expected to be confirmed is one to Japan, a teenage desire of Pope Francis the he shared in this meeting with a Japanese group. <\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> He also hinted at a possible trip to Mozambique during a meeting with the president of the African country. <\/p>\n PRESIDENT FILIPE NYUSSI<\/strong> POPE FRANCIS <\/strong> PRESIDENT FILIPE NYUSSI<\/strong> In addition, Pope Francis received, through the South Korean president, the curious invitation to visit North Korea by Kim Jong-un. Yet, this trip is rather unlikely.<\/p>\n It will be a very busy year. During his almost six years of pontificate, Pope Francis has already visited 37 countries, an astonishing figure given that he was elected at age 76.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" january 11, 2019. Five are confirmed, in addition to possible trips to Japan and Mozambique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":26608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qu9WceTfErQ","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bviaggipapaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bviaggipapaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48499"}],"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=48499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n 'And taking advantage of your visit, I would like to announce my willingness to visit Japan next year. I hope I can do so.'<\/em><\/p>\n
\n 'May I announce that next year you will come to Mozambique?'<\/em><\/p>\n
\n 'Yes, if I'm alive.'<\/em><\/p>\n
\n 'He will be alive, he will be.'<\/p>\n