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Pope’s departure for Tacloban scheduled earlier Saturday

/ 05:21 AM January 17, 2015

MANILA, Philippines—The scheduled trip of Pope Francis to Tacloban City that is threatened by a tropical storm has been scheduled nearly an hour earlier, radio reports said Saturday.

The original departure was around 8 a.m. but reports said the Pope’s plane will leave Villamor Air Base at 7:15 a.m.

As of midnight, the center of Tropical Storm “Amang” was estimated based on all available data at 295 km East of Borongan City in Eastern Samar.

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Pope is scheduled to say Mass at 10 a.m. in Tacloban airport.

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Reports said hundreds of thousands of devotees have gathered around the vicinity and have been waiting for his arrival since Friday night.

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