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Pope meets with Vatican’s Mongolian representative, praises return of Catholicism to Mongolia |
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Wednesday, 05 December 2007 |
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Pope Benedict XVI received
his representative to Mongolia this week and issued a message to the
people of Mongolia.
Meeting with as Wenceslao Padilla,
apostolic prefect in Ulaanbaatar, the Pope praised the return of Catholicism
to Mongolia following the end of Soviet rule.
“Throughout the ages Asia
has given the Church and the world a host of heroes of the faith,”
said the Pope.
Recalling the arrival of Mongolia’s
first missionaries 400 years ago, and their return to Mongolia only
15 years ago, the Pope acknowledged that the growth of Asian Churches
“is due in no small part to the outstanding witness of …martyrs
and others throughout Asia who remained steadfastly faithful to Christ
and his Church.”
“I join you in urging the
laity, and in a special way the young people in your region, to explore
the depth and breadth of our Eucharistic communion,” he said.
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