Pope Francis will visit
Colombia from September 6 to 11, the Vatican press office said
Friday. "Accepting the invitation from the President of the
Republic and Colombian bishops, His Holiness Pope Francis will
make an Apostolic Journey to Colombia from 6 to 11 September
2017, visiting the cities of Bogotá, Villavicencio, Medellín and
Cartagena", said Vatican press office deputy director Paloma
Ovejero. In December the pope Colombian President Juan Manuel
Santos and former president Alvaro Uribe. Santos gave the pope a
pen made from a shell casing, which was used to sign a November,
2016 peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC) guerrilla movement, putting an end to decades of
violence. "The bullet is inscribed with the words 'bullets have
been our past, peace is our future'," the Colombian leader told
Francis, inviting him to visit his country.
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