Pope Francis celebrated a huge outdoor Mass on Friday to ordain new priests from Bangladesh on his first full day in the country where he is due to meet Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar later in the day. Catholics make up less than one percent of the population of 169 million people in majority-Muslim Bangladesh. “I know that many of you came from afar, for a trip for more than two days,” the pope told the crowd in his homily. This indicates the love you have for the Church.”Pope Francis greets believers as he arrives for a mass in Dhaka, Bangladesh December 1, 2017. Scores of Rohingya villages were burnt to the ground, and refugees arriving in Bangladesh told of killings and rapes.

Source: Hindustan Times December 01, 2017 06:11 UTC