Pope Francis greeted the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at the Vatican.<\/p>\n
It's my pleasure to receive you. <\/em>Before they were able to privately meet, Pope Francis joked with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a former comedian. <\/p>\n Protocol. <\/p>\n <\/em>The two were limited by a language barrier.<\/p>\n I welcome you. I do not know Ukrainian. <\/p>\n <\/em>Volodymyr's wife, Olena, greeted the pope before they gave the Holy Father gifts. One was a porcelain bowl with a lamb on the top and another a book of icons, among others. Then Pope Francis gave him the medallion for peace, his message for peace he signed that morning and each of his pontifical texts.<\/p>\n During their private encounter, Volodymyr asked the pope for help to release Ukrainian prisoners of war held by Russia and Russian-supported separatist. After the meeting, the president tweeted that the pope \u201cdoes everything possible to achieve peace and harmony throughout the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Upon leaving, the pope warmly bid the couple goodbye, starting first by shaking Olena's hand and then moving to the president's hand. <\/p>\n Pray for me, please.<\/p>\n <\/em>Volodymyr's head nod must have been a sign of his acceptance of the task.<\/p>\n \nMelissa Butz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Feb. 10, 2020. After the meeting, the president tweeted that the pope \u201cdoes everything possible to achieve peace and harmony throughout the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/aAOyQtvcH1k","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapaucrainaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapaucrainaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47052"}],"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=47052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAlso for me. <\/p>\n