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Crowd of faithful is gathered to attend Pope Francis' ecumenical prayer in Juba, South Sudan, where the Pope is making an official visit, accompanied by the heads of the Churches of England and Scotland, representatives of the country's two other Christian denominations. From 2013 to 2018, South Sudan, which has a population of 12 million, 60% of whom are Christians, was in the grip of a bloody civil war that left 380,000 people dead. IMAGES
Pope Francis arrives in Kaunas in the Popemobile to hold a mass in Santakos Park as part of his visit to Lithuania. IMAGES
Nearing the end of his historic visit to the U.S., Pope Francis makes his way to the Philadelphia Art Museum for an open-air Mass expected to attract 1.5 million people. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Images show Pope Francis stepping onto the balcony of St.Peter's Basilica at the Vatican to deliver his annual Christmas Day "Urbi and Orbi" mass. During his speech, he called for an end to "to every war, to the very mindset of war, an aimless voyage, a defeat without victors, an inexcusable folly". IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron and the French First Lady Brigitte Macron arrive at the giant mass celebrated by Pope Francis at the Stade Velodrome in Marseille, in front of tens of thousands of people. IMAGES
Pope Francis meets a crowd of Catholic faithful before conducting the final mass of his trip to Mongolia at the "Steppe Arena" hockey stadium, on a visit that has seen him seek to build bridges with neighbouring China. IMAGES