As Pope Heads to Philippines, Concerns Over Security

Pope Francis is in Asia this week for the second time in less than six months. He is scheduled to canonize a saint in civil war scarred Sri Lanka and then go to the Philippines to meet with victims of two major disasters that happened in late 2013.  Both visits are expected to draw huge crowds and in the Philippines the nation’s president is calling for calm. Officials expect massive crowds to converge everywhere the pontiff goes in this overwhelmingly Catholic country. ...

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