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Pope Francis flew to Singapore on Wednesday for the final leg of his trip through Southeast Asia and Oceania, the longest and farthest of his papal trips and one of the lengthiest trips of any head of the Catholic Church. After a brief farewell ceremony in the overwhelming Catholic Southeast Asian country of Timor-Leste, the pope and his delegation departed aboard local carrier Aero Dili’s only aircraft, an Airbus A320. During his visit to Timor-Leste, Francis drew a crowd of 600,000 – nearly half the country’s population – for a record-breaking mass on Tuesday. He wrapped up his visit with a …

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