00:00Indonesian President Joko Widodo conveyed a welcome speech to the head of the Worldwide
00:06Catholic Church, Pope Francis, who arrived in the Republic on Tuesday.
00:11The Pope is on the first leg of an ambitious 12-day Asia-Pacific tour.
00:15This visit is a very historic visit, which was planned a few years ago, but was postponed
00:24due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:28This is the third visit after the 6th visit of His Holiness Pope Paul in 1970,
00:38and the 2nd visit of His Holiness John Paul II in 1989.
00:47Indonesia and the Vatican have the same commitment to promote peace and fraternity,
00:56and to ensure prosperity for humanity.
00:59The Pope is scheduled to meet Jokowi and the country's political leaders
01:03on Wednesday at the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta,
01:06followed by an interfaith gathering at Istiklal Mosque
01:09and a grand-scale mass at the city's stadium on Thursday.
01:13He will then visit East Timor, Singapore and Papua New Guinea.
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