Pope expected in Assisi on October 27, with Bartholomew

Pope Leo XIV is expected in Assisi on October 27: according to Vatican News, at the closing ceremony of Sant'Egidio's "Unarmed and disarming peace" meeting (Oct 25-27, 40 years after the 1986 "Spirit of Assisi") "the presence of Leo XIV is planned", with a universal prayer for peace and a minute of silence for victims of war. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will also attend, during an Italy visit from Oct 23 to 28: the Angelicum (honorary doctorate), Loreto on Oct 26 (Holy House and a new Byzantine icon), Assisi, and a lecture at the Pontifical Oriental Institute on Oct 28.