Pope heads to Indonesia as the primary cease of his four-nation tour

Aboard the Papal Plane –
Pope Francis, 87, was set to land in Muslim-majority Indonesia on Tuesday for a go to dominated by interfaith ties, the beginning of an formidable four-nation tour that would be the longest of his papacy.

The pontiff left Rome on Monday afternoon and was as a result of land in Jakarta at 11:30 a.m., the primary cease in a 12-day voyage that will even soak up Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore.

Covering about 32,000 kilometers (nearly 20,000 miles), the tour — the longest and farthest of his 11 years main the worldwide Catholic Church — will check Francis’ more and more fragile well being.