POPE Francis is watched during his visit to the Solmoe Sanctuary
in Dangjin, South Korea, on Friday.
The five-day visit was his first to Asia, and the first by a
pope to the country, where a tenth of the population is Roman
Catholic, since 1989.
While flying over China, he sent a telegram of greeting to its
President and people, who are not permitted to recognise his
authority. On his way back to the Vatican, he joked that he might
die within "two or three years".
Minutes later, he learned that the wife and two children of his
nephew had been killed in a car crash in Argentina. His nephew was
badly injured.