It is her fifth private audience with the Pope. Angela Merkel was received at the Apostolic Palace accompanied by her husband.
Chancellor Angela Merkel was received for a private audience with Pope Francis in the Vatican.
The outgoing Chancellor and her husband Joachim Sauer came to the Apostolic Palace on Thursday morning, where a conversation with the Catholic head of the church took place in camera. For Merkel, this was the fifth private audience with Francis, whom the 67-year-old admires very much.
She was greeted on arrival at the Damasus Court by Monsignor Leonardo Sapienza, Prefect of the Papal House. Then she went to the palace to meet Francis.
On Thursday afternoon a meeting with the Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi is on the program in Rome. After a lunch together, Merkel is expected in the afternoon at the Colosseum for the closing event of the peace meeting in Sant’Egidio, where she is expected to give a speech.
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