Cardinal Marengo: Church in Mongolia will treasure Pope's visit

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As the Republic of Mongolia prepares to welcome Pope Francis early in September, the Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, Cardinal Giorgio Marengo, says the visit is an historic event that the young Mongolian Church will treasure.

Pope Francis will be the first-ever Pope to visit the Buddhist nation where the Church started from nothing in 1992, following the fall the Communist regime. "And now here we are”, he said “20 years later, and about 800 years after the first direct contact between the Holy See and the Mongol emperors, when Pope Innocent IV sent his envoy, the Franciscan Giovanni di Pian del Carpine to personally meet the famous Mongols and start a peaceful dialogue.

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