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Pope Francis boards a plane to Lisbon, where a million young people from across the world are expected for a major Catholic festival, held as the Church reflects on its future. IMAGES
Images of Pope Francis as he embarks on the papal plane in Rome's Fiumicino airport before it takes off. This is his fifth visit to Africa, flying to the Democratic Republic of Congo and then South Sudan to plead for peace in the two violence-plagued nations. His plane is expected to land around 3:00 pm local time at Kinshasa's Ndjili airport. IMAGES
Pope Francis embarks a plane at Fiumicino Airport in Rome as he heads to Iraq for a historic trip to the war-battered country, defying security fears and the pandemic to comfort one of the world's oldest and most persecuted Christian communities. IMAGES
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives at the Vatican to meet Pope Francis, who on Saturday said he was suffering from bronchitis. IMAGES
Recently recovered from a bout of ill-health, Pope Francis marks the feast of the Immaculate Conception with a ceremony on the Piazza di Spagna in central Rome, where he is greeted by a substantial crowd of well-wishers and worshippers. The 86-year-old Argentine pontiff offers a prayer to the Virgin Mary in front of the statue of the Mother of God near the Spanish Steps, an annual tradition on what is a bank holiday in largely Catholic Italy. IMAGES