The tour will be Francis' 45th foreign trip since his election in March 2013
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Jakarta, the Indonesian capital where the trip begins, has experienced disastrous flooding in recent years and is slowly sinking, prompting the government to build a new $32-billion capital on Borneo. , and has prioritized trips to places never before visited by a pope, or where Catholics are a small minority.
Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, has about 280 million inhabitants, only about 3% of them Catholic. Francis will take part in an interfaith meeting at Jakarta’s Istiqlal Mosque, the largest in Southeast Asia.
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