(8 Sep 2024)
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Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea – 8 September 2024
1. Mid of Pope Francis shaking hands with people
2. Pan from crowd to tracking of Pope on Vatican buggy car waving to crowd as he passes by UPSOUND (English) praying
3. Various of Pope waving to crowd from buggy
4. Mid of crowd
5. Pan from Pope waving to crowd
6. Mid tilt up of children in crowd
7. Wide of Pope traveling in buggy with security guards around
8. Pan of crowd
9. Various of Pope waving to crowd
10. Mid tilt up of elderly in crowd
11. Wide pan of crowd
12. Close of people playing drums
13. Wide dancers in grass skirts and feathered headdresses performing to traditional drum beats as priests in green vestments processed up onto the altar
14. Mid of people in traditional clothes chanting and dancing
15. Various of people in traditional clothes playing drums and dancing
STORYLINE:
Pope Francis on Sunday greeted crowds at Port Moresby’s Sir John Guise Stadium after leading a huge Mass in Papua New Guinea’s capital.
An estimated 35,000 people packed out the stadium.
Dancers in grass skirts and feathered headdresses performed to traditional drum beats as priests in green vestments processed up onto the altar.
In his homily, Francis told the crowd that they may well feel themselves distant from both their faith and the institutional church, but that God was near to them.
“You who live on this large island in the Pacific Ocean may sometimes have thought of yourselves as a far away and distant land, situated at the edge of the world,” Francis said.
“Yet … today the Lord wants to draw near to you, to break down distances, to let you know that you are at the center of his heart and that each one of you is important to him.”
Francis has long prioritized the church on the “peripheries,” saying it is actually more important than the center of the institutional church.
In keeping with that philosophy, Francis has largely shunned foreign trips to European capitals, preferring instead far-flung communities where Catholics are often a minority.
There are about 2.5 million Catholics in Papua New Guinea, according to Vatican statistics, out of a population in the Commonwealth nation believed to be around 10 million.
The Catholics practice the faith along with traditional Indigenous beliefs.
Francis is visiting Papua New Guinea for the second leg of his four-nation tour of Southeast Asia and Oceania.
After first stopping in Indonesia, Francis heads on Monday to East Timor and then wraps up his visit in Singapore later in the week.
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