Raw: Pope Departs for Sri Lanka, Philippines

Pope Francis on Monday embarked on his second Asian pilgrimage, leaving Rome for Sri Lanka and the Philippines, exactly 20 years after Saint John Paul II’s record-making visit to the two countries. (Jan. 12)

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