MANILA: Pope Francis will on Thursday immerse himself in the Catholic Church’s passionate and chaotic Asian heartland as he lands in the Philippines for a five-day trip that is tipped to attract a world-record papal crowd.
The charismatic pontiff will fly into the capital of Manila late on Thursday afternoon from Sri Lanka, where a million worshippers gathered to watch him canonise that nation’s first saint and listen to a homily on religious tolerance.
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