Jakarta Globe, Fatima Bona, Nov 13, 2014
Jakarta. Pope Francis will visit the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation in 2017, the secretary general of the Indonesian Bishops Conference (KWI) said on Thursday.
Pope Francis gestures as he arrives to lead his weekly general audience in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Wednesday. (Reuters Photo/Tony Gentile) |
Jakarta. Pope Francis will visit the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation in 2017, the secretary general of the Indonesian Bishops Conference (KWI) said on Thursday.
“The pope
will come to Indonesia, to celebrate Asian Youth Day,” said Mgr. Johannes
Pujasumarta, the archbishop of Semarang.
Johannes,
who was speaking on the sidelines of a KWI meeting in Central Jakarta, said he
could not yet confirm any details of the visit.
If the pope
indeed manages to come to Indonesia, it would be the first papal visit since
1989, when Pope John Paul II celebrated a mass and visited then-President
Suharto in Jakarta.
The
apostolic nunciature in Jakarta could not immediately be reached for comment
after office hours.
Approximately
3 percent of Indonesia’s population identifies as Roman Catholic, or about 7.5
million people. However, Roman Catholicism is the majority religion in some —
primarily eastern — parts of the country.
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