Pope ready to meet ‘noble, wise’ Mongols in Ulaanbaatar

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has voiced his happiness to visit Buddhist-majority Mongolia from Friday where Catholics make up for their small numbers wi...

Pope Francis greets the crowd from the window of the apostolic palace overlooking St. Peter’s square during the weekly Angelus prayer on August 27, 2023 in The Vatican. AFPPIX: Pope Francis has voiced his happiness to visit Buddhist-majority Mongolia from Friday where Catholics make up for their small numbers with “vibrant faith”.

He said he looked forward to meeting “a noble, wise people with a great religious tradition” in the vast Asian nation nestled between China and Russia. The Catholic community of Mongolia -- a former Soviet satellite which adopted a multi-party system in 1992 -- is one of the smallest in the world with an estimated 1,450 faithful out of a population of more than three million.

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