Pope due in Myanmar, Bangladesh in November

Pope Francis would arrive in Bangladesh on November 30 on a three-day state visit at joint invitations from president Abdul Hamid and Catholic Bishops Conference of Bangladesh. 
Before reaching Dhaka, he would be on a four-day trip to Myanmar starting from November 27. 
The office of the Pope, the Archbishop’s House in Dhaka and the foreign ministry simultaneously announced the visit on Monday. 
Cardinal Patrick D’Rozario, also the Catholic Bishops Conference of Bangladesh president, and archbishop of Dhaka and Holy See ambassador in Dhaka archbishop George Kocherry made the announcement of the Pope’s visit at a press conference in Dhaka. 
The Vatican on Monday released the official logos for Pope Francis’ ‘Apostolic Journey’ to Myanmar and Bangladesh, according to Vatican Radio.
The logo for his visit to Myanmar depicts Pope Francis releasing a white dove from within a heart drawn in the colours of Myanmar’s flag–yellow, green and red. An outline of Myanmar’s landmass sits beside the Pope within the heart, while the motto for his journey is shown above ‘love and peace.’
The logo for the visit to Bangladesh has coloured streamers in the shape of a dove, with a cross raised over a water lily, Bangladesh’s national flower, within it. Above, the official motto of the journey ‘harmony and peace’ is written in red.
The Pope, during his visit in Dhaka till December 2, is likely to place wreaths at the National Memorial at Savar. He would pay respect to Bangladesh’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi in Dhaka. 
He would join different programmes including meetings with president Abdul Hamid and prime minister Hasina and addresses at interfaith and youth conferences. 
Assistant Bishop of Dhaka Shorot Francis Gomes and Holy See’s deputy head of mission Luca Marabese were also present at the press conference. 
A Vatican team visited Myanmar and Bangladesh in the past week to coordinate logistic and security issues with respective local authorities, officials in Dhaka said.
Pope Francis, in a statement in Vatican on Sunday, decried persecution of ethnic minority Rohingyas in Myanmar and prayed for them to get ‘full rights.’
Several thousand minority Myanmar Muslims entered Bangladesh since Friday after at least 89 people, including a dozen security forces, were killed in clashes between suspected Rohingya extremists and security forces in Rakhine State on Friday and Saturday.
The officials, however, said that the Pope’s visit was planned much before the recent developments in Rakhine State. 
Pope John Paul visited Bangladesh in 1986

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net