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Pope To Visit Belgium, Luxembourg In September
Faizan Hashmi Published May 20, 2024 | 04:20 PM
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Vatican City, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 20th May, 2024) Pope Francis, 87, will visit Belgium and Luxembourg in late September, less than two weeks after returning from a 12-day trip to Asia, the Vatican announced on Monday.
Belgium's bishops conference previously said the pope had been invited to attend celebrations for the 600th anniversary of the Catholic university of Louvain.
The university was founded in 1425, but is holding events throughout the 2024-2025 academic year.
"His Holiness Pope Francis will make an apostolic journey to Luxembourg on September 26 and in Belgium from September 26 to 29, going to Brussels, Louvain and Louvain-la-Neuve," it said in a statement.
The last papal visit to Belgium was in 1995, when John Paul II attended the beatification in Brussels of 19th century Flemish priest Jozef De Veuster, known as Father Damien.
The trip will come less than a fortnight after Pope Francis makes an ambitious trip encompassing Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore between September 2 and 13.
Covering around 30,000 kilometres (18,600 miles) in total, the Asia trip is the longest for the Argentine pontiff since he became head of the worldwide Catholic Church in 2013.
It will also be the first abroad since Francis went to Marseille in France in September 2023, and could test his increasingly fragile health.
The pontiff, who uses a wheelchair, has suffered increasing health problems in recent years, from knee pain to surgery for a hernia and on his colon.
He visited the Italian city of Verona at the weekend, following a trip to Venice in April.
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