Pope Francis urges prayers for victims of Hurricane Dorian
AFRICAN VISIT. Pope Francis waves at the crowd next to Mozambican President Felipe Nyusi upon his arrival at the Maputo International Airport on September 4, 2019 on in Maputo, Mozambique. Photo by Gianluigi Guerica/AFP
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE, Undefined – Pope Francis on Wednesday, September 4, urged prayers for the victims of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas who "lost everything", as he set off to Mozambique on a three-nation African tour.
"I would like to ask everyone... to pray for the victims of the hurricanes in the Bahamas, poor people who in one day lost their homes, lost everything and lost their lives," the Pontiff said in comments to journalists accompanying him on the plane.
The Pope flew out of Rome on Wednesday morning to Mozambique, a poor former Portuguese colony in southeastern Africa, in the first leg of a week-long trip that will also take him to the Indian Ocean islands of Madagascar and Mauritius.
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The visit to Mozambique comes a month after the government signed a historic peace treaty with the former rebel group Renamo, which is now the main opposition party.
Pope Francis is expected to address Mozambique's fragile peace process, the devastation caused by two back-to-back cyclones early this year, and the upcoming general election. – Rappler.com