Pope Francis will visit the Vatican Pavilion at the Venice Biennale on April 28. The pontiff will go to the pavilion located "in the Giudecca women's prison" He is the fourth Pope to visit the canals of Venice, after Paul VI in 1972, John Paul II in 1985 and Benedict XVI in 2011.
The Vatican is preparing a 10-day tour of Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Singapore and East Timor for the end of August, while the eventual trip to Argentina and Uruguay remains in a state of "hypothesis"