Pope in Slovakia: Francis flew to Budapest (minute by minute) – SME – SME.sk

Today’s program of the Pope in Slovakia

• 15:30 Arrival at the international airport in Bratislava
• 15:30 Official reception at the Bratislava International Airport
• 16:30 Ecumenical meeting at the Apostolic Nunciature in Bratislava and an intercession.
• 17:30 Private meeting with members of the Society of Jesus at the Apostolic Nunciature in Bratislava

Online: Watch the Pope’s visit minute by minute:

8:05 Pope Francis landed in Budapest, Reuters reports. After the official welcome, he will have several meetings in the Museum of Fine Arts.

8:00 The pope’s four-day visit to Slovakia will affect not only those who are preparing for some of the accompanying events. It will also affect life in Bratislava, Košice, Prešov or Šaštín, due to extensive traffic restrictions and exclusions.

The SME daily prepared an overview of what to look out for and which locations will be better avoided in the coming days.

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7:30 Upon arrival at Bratislava Airport the Pope and President Zuzana Čaputová will welcome it. TASR informed her spokesman Martin Strižinec.

The Speaker of Parliament should also be present at the airport upon the Pope’s arrival Boris Kollár, Prime Minister Eduard Heger and other people.

7:00 During a short stop in Budapest, the Pope scheduled meeting with the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. The meeting is expected to highlight differences between František’s views and Orbán’s nationalist and anti-immigration policies.

While the pope has emphasized since the beginning of his pontificate the need to welcome and care for people fleeing war and violence, regardless of their faith, the Hungarian prime minister is fighting to prevent those he describes as “illegal migrants” from entering Europe.

6:40 Pope Francis has already left Rome. He boarded the plane at Fiumicino International Airport in the Italian capital.

6:30 On the eve of his journey, the Pope left a message to believers on his official Pontifex Twitter account on Saturday.

“Tomorrow I begin my apostolic journey to Budapest and Slovakia. I ask everyone to accompany me in prayer, and I entrust this visit to the intercession of so many heroic professors of the faith who have testified the gospel in these places in enmity and persecution.”

6:00 By official schedule of the visit published by the Vatican, the pope should fly from Rome airport to Budapest at 6 o’clock in the morning. He should land in the Hungarian capital 15 minutes before eight, when an official welcome is on the agenda.

Another program of Pope Francis in Budapest:

• 8:45 Meeting with the President and Prime Minister at the Museum of Fine Arts
• 9:15 Meeting with bishops at the Museum of Fine Arts
• 10:00 Meeting with representatives of the Ecumenical Council and some Jewish communities in the Museum of Fine Arts
• 11:30 Holy Mass on Heroes’ Square
• 14:30 Farewell ceremony at Budapest Airport
• 14:40 Departure to Bratislava

05:00 We will use the visit of the Holy Father and try to look inside ourselves, Prime Minister Eduard Heger urged people on Saturday, the day before the start of the Pope’s official visit to Slovakia.

The Pope considers Heger to be a strong personality and a moral authority that unites him.

“Let us listen to the pope’s messages and let peace, foresight and understanding into our souls. Let’s look around and think about how many bridges we have burned instead of building new ones. Let’s not build barriers, but try to go the easy way, the way of mutual respect , “the prime minister said in a video on the social network.

04:00 On Friday evening, two days before the departure to Hungary and Slovakia, Pope Francis visited the main Marian basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in the center of Rome, where he visited the chapel with the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary “Salus populi romani”.

Pope Francis prayed in the chapel for the success of this apostolic journey and entrusted her to the protection of the Mother of God.