History
In the 1960s, popes rarely left the Vatican City. So it was a major event when Pope Paul VI accepted an invitation to visit Uganda in 1969.
Hugh Costello talks to Mobina Jaffer, whose Ismaili Muslim family played an enthusiastic role in welcoming the Pope to the family’s hotel.
A Whistledown production for BBC World Service.
(Photo: Pope Paul VI meets President of Uganda Apollo Milton Obote. Credit: Getty Images)
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