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A little more than two months before his apostolic journey to the Southeast Asian city-state, Pope Francis received yesterday the President of Singapore, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, in a private audience at the Vatican. Pope Francis meets with Opus Dei prelate Monsignor Fernando OcárizPresident Tharman Shanmugaratnam receiving a bronze cast from Pope Francis at the Holy See in Rome on June 22.
Since the audience was private, the Holy See did not release any communiqué. However, the president wrote about it in a Facebook post, saying that Francis spoke to him about the need to end war and conflict across the world, to stop"the immense human suffering it continues to inflict.” Mr Tharman went on to say: “We are looking forward very much to welcoming Pope Francis during his State Visit to Singapore in September this year.”
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