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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is celebrating his birthday today. He is 89 years old.This year Pope Francis makes a pastoral visit to the Greek island of Lesbos.But last year, Francis offered his morning Mass at Casa Santa Marta for his predecessor saying during his Homily, “I would like to remind that today is Pope Benedict XVI’s birthday.“I have offered the Mass for him and I also invite you to pray for him, so that the Lord may sustain him and give him much joy and happiness,” the Holy Father said this morning.”
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is celebrating his birthday today. He is 89 years old.
This year Pope Francis makes a pastoral visit to the Greek island of Lesbos.
But last year, Francis offered his morning Mass at Casa Santa Marta for his predecessor saying during his Homily, “I would like to remind that today is Pope Benedict XVI’s birthday.
“I have offered the Mass for him and I also invite you to pray for him, so that the Lord may sustain him and give him much joy and happiness,” the Holy Father said this morning.”
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos to visit and show solidarity with the many refugees there. The Pope touched down just after 9am Rome time after a flight from the city's Fiumicino airport.In a tweet posted as he left, he wrote, “Refugees are not numbers, they are people who have faces, names, stories, and need to be treated as such.”Following his arrival by plane, Pope Francis met briefly with the Prime Minister of Greece, and is due to travel to the Mòria refugee camp, which is home to about 2,500 people.Pope Francis will spend six hours on the island and will be accompanied by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Ieronymus II.A joint declaration will be signed while at the camp,
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos to visit and show solidarity with the many refugees there. The Pope touched down just after 9am Rome time after a flight from the city's Fiumicino airport.
In a tweet posted as he left, he wrote, “Refugees are not numbers, they are people who have faces, names, stories, and need to be treated as such.”
Following his arrival by plane, Pope Francis met briefly with the Prime Minister of Greece, and is due to travel to the Mòria refugee camp, which is home to about 2,500 people.
Pope Francis will spend six hours on the island and will be accompanied by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Ieronymus II.
A joint declaration will be signed while at the camp,
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