Pope Francis is the second pope to visit Papua New Guinea, on the second-leg of his four nation trip through Southeast Asia and Oceania.
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00:00Pope Francis travelled to the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea where he celebrated the
00:05Catholic Church of the peripheries on Sunday.
00:09Bringing with him a message of love, Francis praised the church workers who go out to try
00:14to spread the faith.
00:16He urged the faithful to work closer to home, at being good to one another, and to put an
00:22end to the tribal rivalries and violence in Papua New Guinea.
00:27The pontiff visited the small town of Vanimo on Papua New Guinea's remote north-west coast
00:32where he met with the faithful of the diocese there.
00:35Earlier, Francis delivered an open-air mass for tens of thousands in a stadium in the
00:41capital.
00:42The visit to Papua New Guinea was part of the second leg of Francis' four-nation tour
00:47across the Asia-Pacific.
00:49The Pope will on Monday head to East Timor before wrapping up his gruelling 12-day trip
00:55in Singapore later this week.