Pope Francis will visit Egypt for two days next month, the Vatican has announced.
The Holy See said the Pope was responding to invitations from President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egypt’s Catholic bishops, Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II and Ahmed al-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University.
The trip, on April 28-29, will be focused on Cairo, the capital city, the Vatican said.
It will be the Pope’s 18th trip abroad and the seventh to a Muslim-majority nation. He will be the second Pope to visit Egypt after Pope John Paul II went there in 2000.
