FILE – In this Aug. 15, 2009 file photo, Sri Lankan Christians participate in the procession of Our Lady of Madhu, at the island's holiest Catholic shrine, in the former northern war zone, in Madhu Village, about 230 Kilometers (144 miles) northeast of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Pope Francis embarks on his second Asian pilgrimage on Jan. 13, 2015, visiting Sri Lanka and the Philippines exactly 20 years after St. John Paul II's record-making visit to two countries with wildly disparate Catholic populations. Francis will travel to the Tamil region of northern Sri Lanka to pray at the shrine and meet with Tamil faithful. The Our Lady of the Madhu is revered by both Sinhalese and Tamil Catholics, providing the perfect backdrop for the pope to encourage reconciliation in a part of Sri Lanka that was devastated by the war. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)