His Singapore trip is scheduled to include visits to St Theresa’s Home and Catholic Junior College.
SINGAPORE – Pope Francis has long wanted to visit Asia and will be seeking to promote intercultural and inter-religious dialogue during his upcoming visit, said Bishop Paul Desmond Tighe, one of the key officials overseeing cultural affairs at the Vatican.Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and Singapore from Sept 2 to 13.
The secretary of the Section for Culture at the Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education was speaking to The Straits Times on the sidelines of a World Economic Forum meeting in Dalian, China, on June 25. But Christianity has been thriving in smaller communities in Asia and “it is a modelling of a certain way of being Christian is also attentive to other cultures”, he added.
“It is an ambitious trip for a man of his age. But it is symbolically important for him,” Bishop Tighe said.
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