VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis will in November visit Bahrain, home to the biggest Catholic church in the Arabian peninsula, the Vatican said on Wednesday.

Francis, 85, will be the first pope ever to visit the majority-Muslim Persian Gulf country, according to Vatican News.

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