Pope encourages vast crowds in Madagascar in fight against poverty, climate threat
Vatican CityRNS Over the weekend in Madagascar, Pope Francis greeted packed stadiums full of celebrating locals, spoke to crowds numbering up to a million people and was embraced by many of the country’s youth, who traveled and waited for hours to catch a glimpse of him during his trip to the country. But while the […]
Pope’s ex-student to welcome his mentor to Madagascar quarry “cathedral”
Antananarivo, MadagascarReuters Three times a year, Father Pedro Opeka celebrates Mass in a vast grey quarry in the hills above Madagascar’s capital. This week, he will welcome his old teacher, Pope Francis, to see the chiselled granite altar from where he ministers. Opeka studied theology under the future pope in their native Argentina before dedicating […]