HONG KONG (SE): Pope Francis will make an Apostolic Journey to Hungary from April 28 to 30, Vatican News reported on February 27. It will be the pope’s 41st apostolic journey abroad
Matteo Bruni, the director of the Holy See Press Office, announced that at the invitation of civil and Church authorities, the pope will be visiting the capital city of Budapest.
During his three-day journey, the Pope Francis is slated to visit with refugees and poor people, as well as with children of the Blessed László Batthyány-Strattmann Institute.
Vatican News reported that the pope will address authorities, civil society and the diplomatic corps; young people; bishops, priests, deacons, consecrated persons, seminarians and pastoral workers; and representatives of the academic and cultural world.
More than half of Hungarians are Christian, and at least 37 per cent of the population identify as Catholic.
Pope Francis had made a brief stop in Budapest to celebrate Mass for the closure of the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress on 12 September 2021, on his way to Slovakia.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, nearly a million Ukrainian nationals have travelled through Hungary as refugees, according to local sources.
