Pope Francis will attend a prayer service in late April in commemoration of the "new martyrs" of the past two centuries.
He will also visit the Italian port city of Genova, ordain new priests and travel to Egypt and Portugal this spring, according to a list of liturgical celebrations he is scheduled to preside over in April and May. The Vatican released the schedule this week.
The Vatican announced that the Pope will celebrate the Liturgy of the Word with the lay Community of Sant'Egidio on Easter Saturday, April 22, in the Church of St Bartholomew on Rome's small Tiber Island "in memory of the 'new martyrs' of the 20th- and 21st-centuries".
