.....and all the world wondered after the beast. Revelation 13:3
"Francis set the tone of their time in Bangkok when he descended from his Alitalia charter on Wednesday afternoon.
Before even greeting Surayud Chulanont, the former prime minister and head of King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s Privy Council who was dispatched to the airport to welcome him, Francis broke diplomatic protocol to give Sivori a kiss on each cheek as she waited at the foot of the stairs.
.... great enthusiasm as crowds turned out to greet Pope Francis,
who is clearly popular in this overwhelmingly Buddhist country, where Catholics make up less than one percent of a population of 69 million.....
He told them he was saddened to hear that many Thais consider Christianity “a foreign faith, a religion for foreigners.” He said this should “spur us to find ways to talk about the faith ‘in dialect,’ like a mother sings lullabies to her child.” He encouraged them to “give faith a Thai face and flesh, which involves much more than making
translations. It is about letting the Gospel be stripped of fine but foreign garb; to let it ‘sing’ with the native music of this land and inspire the hearts of our brothers and sisters with the same beauty that set our own hearts on fire.”
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| Students practice flipping boards with photos to reveal a full-mosaic portrait of Pope Francis before a Holy Mass at National Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019. |
Before even greeting Surayud Chulanont, the former prime minister and head of King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s Privy Council who was dispatched to the airport to welcome him, Francis broke diplomatic protocol to give Sivori a kiss on each cheek as she waited at the foot of the stairs.
.... great enthusiasm as crowds turned out to greet Pope Francis,
He told them he was saddened to hear that many Thais consider Christianity “a foreign faith, a religion for foreigners.” He said this should “spur us to find ways to talk about the faith ‘in dialect,’ like a mother sings lullabies to her child.” He encouraged them to “give faith a Thai face and flesh, which involves much more than making
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