ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates: Pope Francis landed Sunday in Abu Dhabi on the first-ever papal trip to the Arabian Peninsula, where he is seeking to turn a page in Christian-Muslim relations, while also ministering to a unique, thriving Catholic community.

Francis earlier Sunday called for the urgent observation of a limited ceasefire in Yemen reached in December and for food and medicine to get to its people, who were suffering the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

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