Pope Addressing Religious Freedoms, Immigration At Independence Hall
By John McDevitt
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - One of the Pope's public events today is at Independence Hall later this afternoon.
That's where Pope Francis is expected to talk about religious freedoms and immigration. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has a roll in the event:
"I'm going to talk about the same thing. This is a commonwealth that was founded on principals of fairness of tolerance of freedom many of our ancestors came here to escape repression in different parts of Europe and it was a welcoming place people of different nationalities. People of different religions.
Pope Francis will be delivering his remarks today from the very lectern that President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg address here in Pennsylvania 1863.
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