FILE - In this Sunday, March 10, 2019 file photo, Christians, mostly sub-Saharan migrants, attend mass in a cathedral in Rabat, Morocco. (Mosa’ab Elshamy, File/Associated Press)VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis’s weekend trip to Morocco aims to highlight the North African nation’s tradition of Christian-Muslim ties while also letting him show solidarity with migrants at Europe’s door and tend to a tiny Catholic flock on the peripheries. Muslims, Christians and Jews have long lived peacefully in Morocco, even though Catholics are a tiny minority of about 23,000. The pope is travelling to Morocco 34 years after St. John Paul II became the first pope to visit. ___El Masaiti contributed from Rabat, Morocco.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 30, 2019 08:37 UTC