Pope reassures country’s Catholics

THAILAND: Pope Francis tended to the needs of Thailand’s tiny Catholic hierarchy, urging priests and nuns to find ways to communicate the faith with “a Thai face and flesh” in the Buddhist country.

Thousands of Thais welcomed Francis as he travelled to St Peter’s Parish, a Catholic community outside Bangkok, to pray at the sanctuary of Thailand’s first martyred priest.

There, he said that he read “with some pain” that for Thais, Christianity is “for foreigners”.