{"id":28732,"date":"2019-01-11T15:23:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T15:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28732"},"modified":"2019-01-11T15:23:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T15:23:53","slug":"tickets-now-available-online-for-historic-pope-francis-mass-in-the-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28732","title":{"rendered":"Tickets now available online for historic Pope Francis\u2019 mass in the UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1433861\/middle-east\" readability=\"78.3386524823\">\n<p>\nDUBAI: Attendees to the papal mass in Abu Dhabi on Feb. 5 can now register online, a Catholic church body in the region has announced.<\/p>\n<p>\nResidents from the UAE, Oman and Yemen who would like to attend the mass can register through the official website of the <a href=\"https:\/\/uaepapalvisit.org\/\">Papal visit<\/a>, according to the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia (AVOSA), a Catholic church jurisdiction covering the three Gulf nations.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe mass will take place at Zayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi on the last day of Pope Francis\u2019 UAE trip. The stadium has a capacity of over 40,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>\nA few reserved seats will also be allocated for residents from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain. A \u201cvery limited\u201d number of tickets will be issued to non-GCC residents on a first-come, first-served basis.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cAs this is a visit to the AVOSA, tickets are reserved primarily for the local faithful. However, we understand that this is a rare opportunity for people living nearby to see the pope,\u201d AVOSA said on its website.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cDetails on distribution policies are being worked out. We will have more information regarding this on our website very soon,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe February visit will be Pope Francis\u2019 seventh trip to a predominantly Muslim nation, including Palestine, Jordan and Egypt, with the 82-year old pontiff employing those visits to call for inter-religious peace.<\/p>\n<p>\nCrown Prince Mohammed had said in a tweet that the pope \u201cis a symbol of peace, tolerance and the promotion of brotherhood. We look forward to a historic visit, through which we will seek dialogue on the peaceful coexistence among peoples.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"8.84931506849\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The UAE is delighted to welcome His Holiness Pope Francis on the upcoming visit to the UAE. He is a symbol of peace, tolerance and the promotion of brotherhood. We look forward to a historic visit, through which we will seek dialogue on the peaceful coexistence among peoples. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xdsmU18HpO\">pic.twitter.com\/xdsmU18HpO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0645\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0628\u0646 \u0632\u0627\u064a\u062f (@MohamedBinZayed) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MohamedBinZayed\/status\/1070640673228029952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Attendees to the papal mass in Abu Dhabi on Feb. 5 can now register online, a Catholic church body in the region has announced. Residents from the UAE, Oman and Yemen who would like to attend the mass can register through the official website of the Papal visit, according to the Apostolic Vicariate of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}