Pope Francis visits Mother Teresa statue in Skopje


Following the meeting with the authorities, with civil society and with the diplomatic corps in the Presidential Palace, Pope Francis visited the Mother Teresa Memorial.

Pope Francis prayed and laid flowers before the statue of Mother Teresa. He then greeted a number of poor people assisted by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity.

The Pope met with religious leaders from the various confessions present in the country in the Mother Teresa Memorial.

A Holy Mass is to be held in Macedonia Square, which is to be attended more than 15.000 people from the country and abroad.