Pope Francis To Visit Africa For The First Time This November

November 23, 2015

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A boy is pictured below a banner of Pope Francis before a special mass at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Parish where Pope Francis is expected to visit within Kangemi, a slum that is home to 650,000 people in Kenya's capital Nairobi, November 22, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

*A banner of Pope Francis at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Parish where Pope Francis is expected to visit within Kangemi, in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, November 22, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya*

From November 25th to 30th, Pope Francis will be making his first trip to Africa visiting countries including Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic.

Pope Francis joins his predecessors such as Pope Paul VI, St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI who earned the nickname ‘the African.’

Pope Francis’ first Africa trip will highlight the problems of building dialogue between Christianity and Islam as both religions grow fast on the continent, threatening to widen an already volatile fault line there between them.

Pope Francis is expected to offer a word of encouragement to Christians still reeling from an April attack by the Islamic militant group al-Shabab that killed nearly 150 people at a Kenyan college of mostly Christian students.

Source: Reuters, Yahoo News