Pope Francis is on a four-nation tour to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore. The final Mass in Indonesia involved a crowd that filled two sports stadiums, with an overflow into a parking lot. Indonesia has 8.9 million Catholics, 3% of the population of 275 million. The Church seeks to boost interfaith ties with the country boasting the world’s largest Muslim population, and the fourth largest population in the world.
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