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Pope Francis on Friday called on devout leaders to help bring the world back to the “edge of a sensitive precipice” and oppose a new arms race that he said was redefining the spheres of influence of the Cold War era. Francis spoke on his first full day in Bahrain as he closed a forum on the East-West discussion promoted by the king of the Gulf country where, unlike Saudi Arabia, Christians can practice their religion publicly in churches. The stopover is part of the pope’s policy to link up with the Islamic world after a historic stopover in Abu Dhabi in 2019, the first through a pope in the Arabian Peninsula.
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Some 30,000 flag-waving worshippers joined an open-air Mass hosted by Pope Francis, a Muslim major, in Bahrain on Saturday.
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Some 30,000 flag-waving worshippers attended an open-air Mass organized by Pope Francis on Saturday in a predominantly Muslim Bahrain marked by a small demonstration by relatives of those sentenced to death.
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Thousands of Gulf Christians packed Bahrain’s sports stadium Saturday for the main Mass of Pope Francis, who diverted attention from his four days to the ministry of the Catholic network in the Muslim-majority region.
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Some 30,000 flag-waving faithful attended an open-air Mass organized by Pope Francis on Saturday, mostly in Bahrain.
Pope Francis met Friday with Muslim leaders in the Gulf kingdom of Bahrain, Catholics and Muslims are called to promote world peace.
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Pope Francis presented the first public papal Mass in the Kingdom of Bahrain, a Muslim-majority island country in the Persian Gulf.
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(1ST UPDATE) The last event of its four days took place at the Church of the Sacred Heart, built in 1939 on land donated by the country’s then-leader.
