PRESS RELEASE
APOSTOLIC JOURNEY OF HIS HOLINESS FRANCIS
to THAILAND
19-23 NOVEMBER 2019
Tuesday 19 November 2019
ROME – BANGKOK
19:00 Departure by plane from Rome Fiumicino Airport for Bangkok
Wednesday 20 November 2019
ROME – BANGKOK
12:30 Arrival at Military Air Terminal 2 of Bangkok
12:30 OFFICIAL WELCOME at Military Air Terminal 2 of Bangkok
Thursday 21 November 2019
BANGKOK
09:00 WELCOME CEREMONY in the Government House courtyard
09:15 MEETING WITH THE PRIME MINISTER in the “Inner Ivory Room” of the Government House
09:30 MEETING WITH AUTHORITIES, CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS in the “Inner Santi Maitri” Hall of the Government House
Speech of the Holy Father
10:00 VISIT TO THE SUPREME BUDDHIST PATRIARCH at Wat Ratchabophit Sathit Maha Simaram Temple
Greeting of the Holy Father
11:15 MEETING WITH THE MEDICAL STAFF OF ST. LOUIS HOSPITAL
Greeting of the Holy Father
12:00 PRIVATE VISIT TO INFIRM AND DISABLED PEOPLE at St. Louis Hospital Lunch at the Apostolic Nunciature
16:55 PRIVATE VISIT TO HIS MAJESTY THE KING MAHA VAJIRALONGKORN “RAMA X” at Amphorn Royal Palace
18:00 HOLY MASS in the National Stadium
Homily of the Holy Father
Friday 22 November 2019
BANGKOK
10:00 MEETING WITH PRIESTS, RELIGIOUS, SEMINARIANS AND CATECHISTS in St Peter’s Parish
Speech of the Holy Father
11:00 MEETING WITH THE BISHOPS OF THAILAND AND FABC at the Blessed Nicholas Boonkerd Kitbamrung Shrine
Speech of the Holy Father
11:50 PRIVATE MEETING WITH THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS in a hall close to the Shrine Lunch at the Apostolic Nunciature
15:20 MEETING WITH THE LEADERS OF THE CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS AND OTHER RELIGIONS at Chulalongkorn University
Speech of the Holy Father
17:00 HOLY MASS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE at Assumption Cathedral
Homily of the Holy Father
Saturday 23 November 2019
BANGKOK-TOKYO
09:15 FAREWELL CEREMONY at Military Air Terminal 2 of Bangkok
09:30 Departure by plane for Tokyo
17:40 Arrival at Tokyo-Haneda Airport
17:40 WELCOME CEREMONY at Tokyo-Haneda Airport