last month, is due to visit Portugal from Aug. 2 to 4. He is resting for the month of July, the Vatican's customary holiday month.
To allow him to rest after a night flight of more than nine hours and 8,278 km he will have no public activities on the first day apart from a brief official welcome at the airport named after Genghis Khan, who founded the Mongol Empire in the 13th century. The country of about 3.3 million people is strategically significant for the Roman Catholic Church because of its proximity to China, where the Vatican is trying to improve the situation of Catholics.
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