Posted on 10/02/2022 5:36:38 PM PDT by marshmallow
Rome Newsroom, Sep 28, 2022 / 04:57 am The Vatican confirmed Wednesday that Pope Francis will travel to the Kingdom of Bahrain, a Muslim island nation in the Persian Gulf, from Nov. 3–6.
The possibility of a papal trip to the Islamic monarchy was mentioned on the pope’s return flight from Kazakhstan on Sept. 15.
The director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, confirmed on Sept. 28 that Pope Francis will visit Awali and the capital city of Manama for the “Bahrain Forum for Dialogue: East and West for Human Coexistence.”
Further details and the full trip schedule will be published at a later date.
Bahrain, located to the east of Saudi Arabia and west of Qatar, has a population of 1.7 million people. The population is nearly 70% Muslim, with the majority belonging to the Shiite branch of Islam, the country’s state religion.
Christians, at approximately 210,000 people, make up 14% of the overall population, followed by Hindus at 10%.
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ANTI - pope.
And between them , they do 98% of the work.
Exactly. And the pope will tell the Christians to mind their own business and not try to evangelize.
He would have gone to Qatar for the World Cup, but the Vatican City team failed to make the cut.
Bahrain is the seat of the Papal nuncio for the Arabian peninsula
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