After being received on Friday by the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. the vice president of USA JD Vance He attended the Vatican, although without coinciding with Pope Francis. There he had a meeting in which the question of refugees was addressed, two months after the Holy Father was critical of the migration policy of the northern country.
Both parties maintain uncertainty about a possible meeting that was not yet mentioned. It is expected that Vance will see Francisco on Sunday Apart from Easter Mass, although its presence was not officially confirmed.
JD traveled to the Vatican but did not see Pope Francis
Despite his weak state, the Pope received King Carlos III in early April and appeared several times in public in recent days. For its part, and which fervent Catholic, Vance gathered for more than an hour at the Apostolic Palace with Cardinal Italian Pietro ParolinSecretary of State and number 2 of the Vatican.
The meeting with the holy voices addressed “the international situation, particularly in countries marked by the war, difficult political tensions and situationswith special attention to migrants, refugees and prisoners“The Vatican said.
In February, the Argentine Pope condemned, in a letter to the American bishops, the massive expulsions of migrants promoted by Donald Trump, qualifying them as “major crisis.”
The JD Vance meeting with Giorgia Meloni
Vance arrived on Friday in Rome for Easter weekend and met with the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni. There, the Republican Vice was “optimistic” after conversations that he had with the president about the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Without giving much detail, he replied that “we do feel optimistic that, hopefully, we can end this war, this brutal war,” he said according to France24. He also talked about commercial possibilities with the European Union (EU).
Pope Francis’s message for Good Friday: “God’s economy does not kill, crush”
He Pope Francis The traditional was not present Holy Week Crucis carried out in Rome on Good Friday due to its health picture, but shared the written reflections that will be read in the celebration.“God’s economy does not kill, it does not rule out, it does not crush; it is humble, faithful to earth,” He said in his message.
Source: Ambito
