Pope Francis will visit areas ravaged by Super Typhoon Yolanda to extend consolation and demonstrate spiritual closeness to survivors, an official of the Vatican announced at a Holy Mass at the damaged La Libertad Mission Church in Palo, Leyte on Tuesday.

“You go now because I might be going there also,” Cardinal Robert Sarah, president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, quoted Pope Francis as saying.

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