"At the end of the meeting, the father of a boy killed in the accident... asked to be baptised," the pope's spokesman Federico Lombardi told reporters.
"The pope accepted," Lombardi said, adding that the ceremony would be conducted Saturday at the Vatican embassy in Seoul.
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