{"id":44028,"date":"2022-04-07T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2022\/04\/07\/pope-francis-meets-with-ukraines-ambassador-to-the-holy-see\/"},"modified":"2022-04-07T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:35:00","slug":"pope-francis-meets-with-ukraines-ambassador-to-the-holy-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2022\/04\/07\/pope-francis-meets-with-ukraines-ambassador-to-the-holy-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis meets with Ukraine's ambassador to the Holy See"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine's Ambassador to the Holy See, Andrii Yurash, formally presented his letter of accreditation to Pope Francis, who greeted him in Ukrainian.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope met also his wife and children.<\/p>\n<p>Among his gifts, the Ambassador gave Pope Francis a traditional Ukrainian pastry, and a bushel of wheat, a symbol of bounty.<\/p>\n<p>The two then met privately, only days after Pope Francis said that a papal trip to Ukraine is on the table.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>It's there as one of the options that has come to me, but I don't know if it can be done.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Their meeting comes on the same day that Ukraine's foreign minister travels to NATO headquarters to meet with foreign ministers, asking Western governments for increased arms support.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DMYTRO KULEBA<br \/>\n<\/strong>Ukrainian Foreign Minister<br \/>\n<em>As weird as it may sound, today weapons serve the purpose of peace.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In recent days, Pope Francis has been extremely critical of increased weapons spending.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Buying arms in response to what is happening now. Madness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But Ukraine's new Ambassador to the Holy See maintains that the Vatican is doing everything possible to stop the war.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>JM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 7, 2022. The two met privately only days after Pope Francis said that a papal trip to Ukraine is on the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/d4GkLTEu3Rg","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bambasciatoreucrainoeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bambasciatoreucrainoint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}