<p>Pope Francis is embarking on his logest and most <span style="color: #333333; background-color: #ffffff;" data-ke-size="size16">challenging trip </span><span style="color: #333333; background-color: #ffffff;" data-ke-size="size16"> as he heads to  Asia and </span>  Oceania.</p><p>Francis will colck over 20 thousand miles by air during his September 2nd to  13th visit to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea uanugueni, East Timor, Singapore. That far surpasses any of his previous 44 trips and notches one of longest papal  trip ever in terms of day on the road and distance traveled. that's not small feat for a pope who turns 88 in December uses  a wheel chair and  has  lost part of lung to respiratory infection  as a young man </p><p>I'm Karen Chammas.</p>
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