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General: POPE FRANCIS GENEVA TRIP IN A NUTSHELL SWITZERLAND JUNE 20 2018 WORLD COUNCIL WC
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De: BARILOCHENSE6999  (Mensaje original) Enviado: 16/03/2025 04:15

Pope Francis’ Geneva trip in a nutshell

Pope Francis waves to a crowd at the Vatican on June 2, 2018 Pope Francis waves to a crowd at the Vatican on June 2, 2018 Keystone

Here is a brief guide to the Pope's one-day visit to Geneva today.  

What is Pope Francis doing in Geneva?

The pope is travelling to the Swiss city on June 21 partly to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC). He is expected to arrive at the airport at 10.10amExternal link, where he will be welcomed by Swiss governmentExternal link delegation, including president Alain Berset and ministers Doris Leuthard and Ignazio Cassis.

After official talks with the Swiss leaders, the pope will make the short journey to the WCC headquarters for an ecumenical prayer session with local church representatives. After lunch at the Ecumenical Institute at the Chteau BosseyExternal link in neighbouring canton Vaud, he will return to the WCC for talks. 

Why is the pope visiting the WCC? I thought the Roman Catholic Church was not a member of the Geneva-based organisation.

Founded in 1948, the World Council of Churches (WCC)External link brings together the world’s Orthodox, Anglican, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran and Reformed churches but not the Catholic Church, with whom it has had a complicated relationship. The pope’s visit goes under the motto ‘Walking, praying and working together’ and is the result of five years’ efforts by WCC officials to persuade him to come to Geneva following Francis’ appointment in 2013. 

Despite not being affiliated, around 50 Vatican observers participate in WCC committees dealing with issues such as peace promotion, religious doctrine and education. The pope’s trip is thus seen as a highly significant working visit and attempt to boost Christian unity.

Geneva will be the second European visit by Francis with a clear ecumenical accent after his visit to Lund in Sweden in October 2016 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation alongside leaders of the Lutheran World Federation.

Will he hold a mass?

Yes. The pope is due to hold a mass at 5.30pm at the Palexpo convention centreExternal link next to Geneva Airport. Some 41,000 lucky ticket-holders will be waiting for him but the event will also be broadcast live on Swiss public television, RTS/SRF/RSI. 

The mass is budgeted at CHF2 million ($2 million), half towards security. Swiss Catholics have been asked to put their hands in their pocketsExternal link to help fund the ceremony.  But there are concerns about the visit causing a possible CHF1 million deficit.

Police say it is best to avoid Geneva Airport and the surrounding area that dayExternal link, as thousands of other people are expected to travel there to try to catch a glimpse of the head of the Catholic Church. He is due to leave for Rome at 8pm.

When was the last time the pope came to Switzerland?

The most recent papal visit to Switzerland was in 2004, when Pope John Paul II went to Bern and Geneva on a six-day tour a year before he died. Almost 70,000 attended the mass which he held in German. In 1984, John Paul II made a five-day visit to Switzerland and two years earlier he visited several international organisations in Geneva, including the WCCExternal link. The first papal visit to Switzerland was in 1969 when Pope Paul VI visited the United Nations in GenevaExternal link (click on the photo gallery below).

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Are there many Roman Catholics in Switzerland?

Most of the Swiss population are Christian but Christianity is on the decline and the percentage of non-believers is growing. Catholics are the biggest faith group – 37% of permanent residents in 2016, down from 47% in 1970, according to the Federal Statistical Office. 

Over a quarter of all Swiss Catholics attend a religious service between six to 12 times a year. A survey commissioned by the Swiss Catholic Bishops Conference on marital and family issues in 2014 revealed liberal attitudes to sex and marriage

The percentage of Swiss Protestants has fallen sharply since 1970 from 49% to 25% in 2015. Geneva, the city of Jean Calvin, is sometimes referred to as the Protestant Rome. However, times have changed. In 2016, around 35% of the city’s residents claimed to be Catholic, while 24% said they were Protestant.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/papal-explainer_pope-francis-geneva-trip-in-a-nutshell/44185566


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De: BARILOCHENSE6999 Enviado: 16/03/2025 04:22

Pope Francis makes rare visit to Switzerland

Pope Francis and Alain Berset Pope Francis is welcomed at Geneva Airport by Alain Berset, who holds the rotating Swiss presidency this year Keystone

Pope Francis has visited the Swiss city of Geneva – a centre of Protestantism – on a whirlwind one-day tour to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and to promote Christian unity. 

The pope flew into Geneva – historically known as the “Protestant Rome” for its links to John Calvin – on a hot Thursday morning for a packed schedule that began with a meeting at the airport with Swiss government officials. 

After a 20-minute tête-à-tête, Alain Berset, who holds the rotating Swiss presidency this year, told reporters that he shared the pope’s commitment to peace and human rights. 

Berset said the pope had urged Switzerland to use dialogue to help prevent conflicts around the world. The two leaders also discussed the issue of immigration and refugee boats from north Africa that were being blocked by Italy.

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The previous papal visit to Switzerland was in 2004, when Pope John Paul II came to Bern and Geneva not long before he died. 

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Francis was then driven to the WCC headquarters in Geneva just south of the airport for an ecumenical prayer session with local church representatives. The Roman Catholic Church is not a member of the WCC, which brings together the world’s Orthodox, Anglican, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran and Reformed churches, but it does send observers to participate in several WCC committees. 

The papal visit, which went under the motto “Walking, praying and working together”, marks a significant effort to bridge the divide between the Vatican and other Christian churches. 

At the WCC, the 81-year-old Argentinian pope warned worshippers against the dangers of “unbridled consumerism”, saying it leads to the exclusion of children and the elderly. “We have lost our direction,” he said.

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In his speeches at the WCC and throughout the day, the pope called for deeper unity between the Catholic Church and other Christian faiths.   

“I have desired to come here, a pilgrim in quest of unity and peace,” he told the prayer gathering. 

It is the third time that a pope has visited the WCC after Paul VI in 1960 and John Paul II 35 years ago. Historically, divisions between the Catholic Church and the Protestant confessions have run deep. 

The pope also referred to the “ecumenism of blood”, condemning the indiscriminate murder of Catholics, Orthodox and Protestant Christians. 

“Let us also look to our many brothers and sisters in various parts of the world, particularly in the Middle East, who suffer because they are Christians,” he said. 

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The pope ended his one-day visit by celebrating a mass at 5.30pm at the Palexpo convention centreExternal link next to Geneva Airport for 30,000 people, according to a police estimate. The organisers said 37,000 had attended. But this was still slightly down on the expected figure of 41,000. 

Worshippers sat on chairs in the massive hangar, which hosts the Geneva International Motor Show every year and is the size of six football pitches. 

Most of the lucky ticket-holders were from Switzerland – cantons Geneva, Fribourg, Jura, Valais and Zurich – but also from neighbouring France, and even as far away as Spain, Slovakia and Croatia. Some had started queuing as early as 7.30am. 

The pontiff was greeted like a rock star with cheers and a sea of mobile phones when he arrived in the hall in his “Popemobile”. 

Speaking in Italian and French on a simple stage which featured a large white cross overhead and a drawing of the Alps, he urged the audience to “rediscover the courage of silence and of prayer”. 

A handful of former Swiss guardsmen, dressed in traditional blue-red-and-yellow-striped Renaissance-inspired uniforms, were also present for the mass and ceremonial activities at the airport. 

In Rome, the Pontifical Swiss GuardExternal link has been tasked with protecting the pope and his official palace in the Vatican City since 1506, when the first Swiss mercenaries arrived on request of the then Pope Julius II. 

Pope Francis ended his mass to huge applause by thanking the Geneva people and the Swiss authorities. 

“I salute the citizens of this beautiful city,” he declared. “I want to thank the Swiss government for the friendly invitation and precious collaboration.”

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/papal-visit_pope-francis-visits-geneva-to-boost-christian-unity/44206274


 
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