Pope Francis celebrated a historic Catholic mass in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, February 5, 2019 is part of a landmark trip that saw the first-ever papal visit to the Arabian Peninsula, the birthplace of Islam. UAE officials say that Francis's public mass in the capital city of Abu Dhabi drew about 4,000 Muslims and about 135,000 people total – many of them Catholic migrants from places such as the Philippines and South America. They're part of a large migrant community in the oil-rich

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... country that works building gleaming new towers or as domestic help, often under harsh or discriminatory conditions.