Only rock stars and presidents can usually fill Indonesia’s national stadium, but today it was Pope Francis, 87, who drew more than 80,000 people for a Catholic service in the world’s most populous Muslim country. The service was the culmination of the pope’s four-day visit to the capital Jakarta, the first stop on a 12-day tour of Southeast Asia and Oceania, which also includes visits to East Timor, Singapore and Papua New Guinea. In his speech at the stadium before the faithful, the pope called on Indonesians to follow “the path of dialogue”. “I encourage you to sow love, walk the path of dialogue with confidence, preserve your kindness and your kindness (…) to become builders of unity and peace,” Francis said on the fourth day of his tour. “The presence of the pope is like the presence of Jesus,” Indonesian transgender woman Mami Yuli, among thousands of Christians, told Reuters […]
Source: News Beast
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