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Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>Pope Francis, 85, has been forced to postpone his trip to Africa, scheduled for July 2-7, due to knee pain, the Vatican announced Friday (June 10).<\/b><\/p>\n

The announcement comes a few days after the Vatican had released a detailed programme outline for the six-day trip Kinshasa, Goma and Juba<\/p>\n

“The Holy Father, accepting the request of his doctors and in order not to compromise the results of the knee therapies still underway, is forced to postpone his trip to a later date to be determined,” the director of the Holy See press office, Matteo Bruni, announced in a statement.<\/p>\n

The statement did not mention the trip to Canada scheduled for 24-30 July, during which the Pope is expected to renew his apology for decades of abuse in residential schools for indigenous people.<\/p>\n

In early May, Lebanon had already announced the postponement of the pope’s visit to the country scheduled for June, citing “health reasons”.<\/p>\n

Suffering from severe pain in his right knee, the Argentine pontiff has been in a wheelchair since the beginning of May and has announced that he will have to undergo infiltrations, injections of corticoid-based anti-inflammatory drugs.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been in this condition for a while now, I can’t walk anymore,” he told the Italian daily Il Corriere della Sera in May, after being forced to cancel several meetings scheduled on his agenda.<\/p>\n

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