Manila: A massive rush of people wanting access to details of Pope Francis’ January 15-19, 2015 visit to the Philippines, had caused the website papalvisit.ph to crash several times.

According to the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), which runs the website, papalvisit.ph crashed Friday evening and was only back online after three hours.

“High traffic caused the server to crash,” the CBCP said.

Just hours before on the same evening, CBCP officials announced in a 7pm press briefing Pope Francis’ itinerary. “he site had slowed down and eventually crashed at around 8pm due to an unexpected number of internet users visiting the site,” CBCP said.

Although there had been information from the clergy concerning the January 2015 papal visit, most information on this matter had been unofficial.

According to Monsignor Pedro Quitorio of the papal visit media and information committee, they will set up further measures to prevent the website from crashing again.

Based on his Philippine itinerary, the 77-year-old Pontiff will arrive in Manila from Sri Lanka afternoon of January 15.

The following morning, January 16, the Pope will be officially welcomed by President Benigno Aquino III at Malacañan Palace in Manila. Following his will be a meeting with the members of the diplomatic corps.

On January 17, the pontiff will visit some areas devastated by Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) in Leyte particularly Tacloban City and its adjacent town of Palo.

Pope Francis is expected to offer mass upon his arrival at the Tacloban Airport and will later have lunch with the poor and survivors of recent natural calamities at the residence of the Archbishop of Palo.

Aside from the typhoon victims, the Pope will also be sharing lunch with the victims of the 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Bohol. The Pontiff is expected to be back to Manila on the same day.

On January 18, the Pope have a brief meeting with the religious leaders and will meet young people at the Pontifical University of Santo Tomas in Manila. In the afternoon, he will go on a motorcade for the concluding mass at Quirino Grandstand in Rizal (Luneta) Park.

Pope Francis will leave for Rome on January 19.

Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte, in an interview aired over dzRB said government is working to ensure an orderly and safe Papal visit.

She said a chief concern of the government is the possibility of terrorist acts as well as the usual crowd control issues.

With 100 million inhabitants, majority of Filipinos are Catholics.