Pope to visit Portugal for World Youth Day

Pope Francis will travel to Lisbon in August (Gregorio Borgia/AP)

Pope Francis will travel to Portugal for World Youth Day in the first week of August and include a stop at the popular Marian shrine in Fatima, the Vatican said.

The August 2-6 visit is longer than originally expected and covers almost the entire week of the big Catholic rally that St John Paul II inaugurated to try to invigorate young people in their faith.