Pope Francis is driven through the crowd as he arrives for a meeting with young people and families, in Iasi, Romania, Saturday, June 1, 2019. (Andrew Medichini/Associated Press)MIERCUREA CIUC, Romania — Pope Francis braved a rain-soaked, twisting drive through the mountains of Transylvania on Saturday to visit Romania’s most famous shrine, urging Romanian and ethnic Hungarian faithful to work together for their future. Hungary lost Transylvania in the peace treaties after World War I yet the region remains heavily Hungarian in both culture and language. Those tensions are often reflected in the uneasy relationship between the predominantly Hungarian Roman Catholic community and the Romanian-speaking Greek-Catholic communities. ___Olimpiu Gheorghiu contributed from Iasi, Romania.

Source: Washington Post June 01, 2019 08:47 UTC