Pope Francis arrives in Singapore, last stop on 12-day tour

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Pope Francis arrives in Singapore on Wednesday, September 11, from East Timor, on the final leg of an ambitious 12-day journey across Southeast Asia and Oceania.

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00:00Pope Francis arrives in Singapore on Wednesday, September 11, from East Timor on the final leg of an ambitious 12-day journey across Southeast Asia and Oceania.
00:09The highlight of the two-night visit will be the Mass at the National Stadium where the Vatican expects to draw some 55,000 people.
00:15Francis is only the second Pope to visit Singapore after Pope John Paul II in 1986.
00:21The country counts about 210,000 Catholics among its 5.92 million people.
00:26The Pope arrives from Dili, East Timor's capital.
00:29The former Portuguese colony is one of only two predominantly Catholic countries in Asia.
00:34The other one is the Philippines.
00:36The Vatican estimates 600,000 had gathered for the Mass held on Tuesday, with almost half of the country's 1.3 million population attending.
00:43Francis is the first Pope to visit East Timor in 35 years.

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