Obama to Receive Pope Francis on 23 September

Vatican Insider
March 26, 2015

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(©ANSA) POPE FRANCIS AND OBAMA

The President of the United States, Barack Obama, and the First Lady will welcome Pope Francis to the White House on 23 September. It will be a visit in which Obama and the Pontiff will continue the dialogue they started during the President’s visit to the Vatican in March 2014, the White House has announced.

During the visit, Obama and the Pope will continue to discuss their shared values and commitments on a wide range of topics, including caring for those on the margins of society and the poor, the effort to promote economic opportunities for everybody, to be good custodians of the environment, to protect religious minorities and promote religious freedom in the world, and the acceptance and integration of immigrants and refugees into our communities. “The President is delighted to be able to continue his conversation with the Holy Father during his first visit to the United States as Pontiff”, the White House has said.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio will visit the United States to attend the World Meeting of Families that will be held in Philadelphia from 22 to 27 September. Between 8,000 and 12,000 people are expected to attend the conferences during the week, while a million visitors are expected to arrive during the weekend with the Pope.

On 24 September, Pope Francis will be the first Pontiff to visit and speak before the United States Congress in Washington. Bergoglio will also deliver a speech at the United Nations headquarters in New York on 25 September.