Pope Francis says goodbye, as Ugandan trip concludes
Nov 29, 2015
Pope Francis has bid Uganda farewell. His plane departed for the Central African Republic on Sunday, thus bringing to a close his Uganda leg of his three-nation Africa tour.
By Vision Reporter
Pope Francis has bid Uganda farewell. His plane departed for the Central African Republic on Sunday, thus bringing to a close his Uganda leg of his three-nation Africa tour.
Huge crowds of Ugandans greeted Francis as he honoured Christians martyred for the faith on the second leg of his first trip to Africa, which he dubbed "the continent of hope".
The 78-year-old pontiff received a rapturous welcome as he visited a martyrs' shrine at Namugongo, just outside the capital Kampala, to honour more than 40 Christians who were executed in the 19th century for refusing to recant their faith.
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