The main points and the full programme will be published at a later date.
The Vatican showed Wednesday that Pope Francis will visit the Kingdom of Bahrain, a Muslim island country in the Persian Gulf, Nov. 3-6.
The option of a papal vacation to the Islamic monarchy was raised on the pope’s return flight from Kazakhstan on Sept. 15.
The director of the Holy See press office, Matteo Bruni, showed Sept. 28 that Pope Francis will travel to Awali and the capital Manama for the “Bahrain Forum for Dialogue: East and West for Human Coexistence. “
The main points and the full programme will be published at a later date.
Bahrain, east of Saudi Arabia and west of Qatar, has a population of 1. 7 million. The population is 70% Muslim, most belonging to the Shiite branch of Islam, the country’s state religion.
Christians, with about 210,000 people, make up 14% of the total population, followed by Hindus with 10%.
There are about 80,000 Catholics in Bahrain, many of whom are immigrants from Asia, the Philippines and India.
Awali, a small township about 20 km south of Manama, is the location of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia, which was consecrated on December 10, 2021.
The arched Catholic cathedral seats another 2,300 people and was built as part of a 95,000-square-foot complex. The church is the brainchild of Archbishop Camillo Ballin, vicar apostolic of northern Arabia, who died in 2020, shortly before he could simply see his mission completed.
The name of Our Lady of Arabia was approved in 1948. A small chapel in Ahmadi, Kuwait, consecrated in his honor on December 8 of the same year.
In 1957, Pius XII issued a decree proclaiming Our Lady of Arabia patroness of the territory and of the Apostolic Vicariate of Kuwait.
In 2011, the Vatican proclaimed Our Lady of Arabia patroness of the vicariates of Kuwait and Arabia.
Later that year, the Holy See reorganized the Vicariate of Kuwait, giving it the new name of Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Arabia, and the territories of Qatar, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia stands on a plot of 9,000 meters in Awali, ceded through King Hamad Bin Isa al-Khalifa.
This month’s consecration of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia in Bahrain presented “a ray of hope for the coexistence of Christians and Muslims in the Arab world,” said Thomas Heine-Geldern, president of ACN.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia is expected to be the non-secular home of some 80,000 Catholics.
Concluding his homily, Cardinal Tagle said: “With the inauguration of the cathedral, we, too, your families and the community, consecrate you to the life and service of Jesus Christ. “
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