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Pope Francis addressed the fight for women’s equality during a press conference aboard the papal plane to Rome on Sunday.
In Bahrain on Sunday morning, Pope Francis prayed with Catholics from the Arabian Peninsula and encouraged them to be bold in proclaiming the Gospel in their countries.
Pope Francis’ historic visit to Bahrain continued Saturday with a meeting with young people at a Catholic school in the overwhelmingly Muslim nation.
About 30,000 people crowded into a soccer stadium on Saturday morning to attend the first public papal Mass in the Kingdom of Bahrain, a Muslim-majority island country in the Persian Gulf.