Not a month from dismissal from the hospital, 88-year-old Pope, whose presence was uncertain, appeared in a wheelchair, but without nasal canilis, shortly after 12 hours to traditionally say the blessing of “Urbi et orbi”, broadcast around the world.
Still weak and, despite better breathing, difficult to say the words, Franjo is reading his part of the text in which he looked at the conflicts in the world, entrusted the colleague.
He condemned “dramatic and contempt for the valuable humanitarian situation” in Gaza, warning “an increasingly stronger anti-Semitism climate that spreads the world.”
“I invite the infected parties: Suspend fire, release hostages and provide valuable help with a starving population that craves the future in which the Pope said,” Hina reports.
A few moments earlier Franjo “received the US Vice-President JD Vance in his Vatican Residence of Santa Marty as part of a private meeting.
Two months ago, the chief of the Catholic Church sharply criticized the immigrant policy of the Donald Trump administration.
For the first time since the beginning of his pontificate in 2013, the Holy Father missed most events of the Great Week, including the Križna Put on Friday Colosse, as well as Easter Vacation on Saturday nights, who did his cardinals instead.
But on Saturday afternoon, Franjo briefly appeared in the public in St. Peter’s Basilica to pray before the Virgin Mary Icon, and then greeted the people present and divided the children of candy.
Easter Mass, which celebrates the memorial to Christ’s Resurrection, began at 8.30 pm on the Skot Peter Square, lavishly stunned by flowers. She was attended by about 300 priests, bishop and cardinal, and was led by Italian Cardinal Angelo Comastri.
(Vijesti.ba)
