Pope Francis will Visit Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, and Singapore Soon as Announced by the Vatican


The Holy See Press Office announced on April 12th that Pope Francis will visit three nations in Asia and one in Oceania in early September:
Accepting the invitation of the respective Heads of State and Church Authorities, Pope Francis will undertake an Apostolic Journey to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and Singapore from 2 to 13 September. He will visit Jakarta from 3 to 6 September, Port Moresby and Vanimo from 6 to 9 September, Dili from 9 to 11 September and Singapore from 11 to 13 September.
The programme of the Journey will be published in due course.
Statistics of Catholics in the Region
Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, and Catholics number over 8 million, or 3.1 percent of the population.
Around 32 percent of Papua New Guinea’s population are Catholic, numbering around 2 million.
Timor-Leste is overwhelmingly Catholic, accounting for around 96 percent of the population, counting over 1 million people.
Some 395,000 Catholics live in Singapore, representing around 3 percent of the population.


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