Pope Francis’s itinerary for his upcoming trip to South Sudan has been altered due to health concerns.
The Catholic Archbishop of Juba, Stephen Ameyu Martin, announced that plans for the Pope to visit a camp for conflict-displaced people had been scrapped.
“With the Holy Father Pope Francis’s health, it is not easy for him to go to the IDP camp that we have here in Juba,” he added.
Instead, at least 2,000 of them would be invited to meet the Pope at Freedom Hall in the city.
Since May of last year, the Pope, who leads more than a billion Roman Catholics worldwide, has walked with a stick or ridden in a wheelchair.
Between the 31st of January and the 5th of February, he will travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan.
