Visiting places where Catholics are a minority is part of Pope Francis' policy of drawing attention to people and problems in what he has called the peripheries of society and of the world.
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis will make an August 31 to September 4 trip to Mongolia, one of the most far-flung places he has ever visited and which has only about 1,300 Catholics, but is strategically significant for the Roman Catholic Church because of its proximity to China.
According to Fides, the news agency of the Vatican’s missionary activities, there are about 1,300 baptized Catholics in Mongolia among a population of about 3.3 million people. Although the number of Catholics in Mongolia is smaller that most individual parish churches in many countries, the country is significant for the Vatican.
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