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                    [Title] => Uganda fundraises, spruces up shrine for pope visit
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More than 2 million people are expected to converge near a minor basilica in the Ugandan capital where Pope Francis will celebrate Mass on Saturday, an official with the Roman Catholic Church here said yesterday even as workers put in extra hours to spruce up the shrine.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-23 15:34:44 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704886 [AuthorName] => Rodney Muhumuza [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1524718 [Title] => In Africa, Pope Francis to find a church growing in numbers [Summary] =>

Pope Paul VI became the first modern pope to visit Africa in 1969 and declared the continent a "new homeland" for Jesus Christ.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-21 17:00:16 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1231969 [AuthorName] => Christopher Torchia [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 274963 [Title] => The Pope’s image problem [Summary] => When Karol Josef Wojtyla was elected Pope back in October, 1978, the common query was "Karol who?"When Joseph Ratzinger was chosen Pope this week, no such question was asked. Everyone knew who Cardinal Ratzinger is and what he stands for. But it’s precisely that public identity that’s causing him a huge image problem.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134872 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1532288 [AuthorName] => MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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