AP: Cypriot President announces that Pope Francis will visit the island in 2020

AP reports from Nicosia that Cyprus’ president says Pope Francis has accepted his invitation to visit the east Mediterranean island nation next year.

In 2020, Cyprus will mark the 60th year of its independence from British colonial rule and a decade since Pope Benedict XVI travelled to the island, the first pontiff to do so.

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