Pope Francis' 12-day trip was the longest yet of his papacy, and among the longest in papal history. Upon landing in Rome, Francis will have clocked nearly 33,000 km.
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The Singapore Airlines flight carrying the Catholic pontiff and his entourage took off around 12:25 p.m. in Singapore and is due to arrive in Rome on Friday evening, after a 12-hour flight through six time zones. Highlights of the journey included a trip to a township of some 12,000 people on the edge of the Papua New Guinean jungle, in which the Pope brought hundreds of kilograms of items to help support the local population, including medicines, clothing and toys for children.with a crowd of some 600,000 people, nearly half the country’s population of 1.3 million, in one of the largest ever turnouts as a proportion of a country’s population for a Mass during a papal visit.
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