NNA -  Pope Francis will in November visit Bahrain, home to the biggest Catholic church in the Arabian Peninsula, the Vatican said Wednesday.

Francis, 85, will be the first pope ever to visit the majority-Muslim Persian Gulf country, according to Vatican News.

Francis will visit the capital of Manama and city of Awali during the November 3 to 6 trip, and will attend the “Bahrain Forum for Dialogue: East and West for Human Coexistence.”

Further details of the visit - the 39th international trip of Francis’'s papacy - will be released at a later date. -- AFP

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