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ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT - Pope Francis left Rome on Monday for Jakarta, where the 87-year-old leader of the global Catholic Church will start an ambitious 12-day tour to four countries in Southeast Asia .The flight carrying the pope and his entourage left Fiumicino airport for an overnight flight of more than 13 hours to the Indonesia n capital.The pope will be in Indonesia until Friday. He is then scheduled to visit Papua New Guinea , East Timor and Singapore before returning to Rome on Sept. 13.
Each of the countries on his tour is facing dangers from the warming global climate, including rising sea levels and increasingly severe and unpredictable heat waves and typhoons.Francis is set to travel nearly 33,000 km throughout the visit, and will headline more than 40 events. It is the longest trip yet by the pontiff, who now regularly uses a wheelchair due to knee and back pain and has had bouts of ill health.
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