Pope announces May trip to Middle East

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Credit: Reuters/Alessandro Bianchi


Pope Francis waves as he leaves at the end of his mass at the Church of the Most Holy Name of Jesus in downtown Rome January 3, 2014.


The May 24-26 trip to Amman, Bethlehem and Jerusalem will mark the 50th anniversary of a landmark trip there by Pope Paul VI in 1964, the first by a pope in modern times. Pope John Paul II visited in 2000 and Benedict XVI went in 2009.


(Reporting By Philip Pullella; Editing by Janet Lawrence)


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