Pope Francis met the new president of Lithuania, Gitanas Naus\u00e8da, in the Vatican.<\/p>\n
The president was accompanied by a delegation of seven people. Among them was his wife, who attended the meeting with contained emotion.<\/p>\n
Among the problems they spoke of was the conflict in Ukraine and the need for solidarity between European countries.<\/p>\n
The president gave the pope two gifts. One was a tree representing Lithuania. He explained that its roots \u201chave survived\u201d difficulties, and they hope to keep growing despite any obstacles.<\/p>\n
He also gifted him a book of prayers written by people deported to Siberia that Pope Francis looked at with interest.<\/p>\n
Pope Francis gave him a medallion.<\/p>\n
...This is what St. Peter's was like in 1657.<\/em><\/p>\n He also gave the president his pontifical documents. At the end, Pope Francis affectionately said goodbye to him and his wife.<\/p>\n Go ahead. Pray for me.<\/em><\/p>\n Do not forget to pray for me.<\/em><\/p>\n This was the second visit of a Lithuanian president in 2019. In March, the predecessor in office came to the Vatican, six months after Pope Francis' trip to Lithuania the previous year.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 8th, 2019. This is the Lithuanian president's second visit to the Vatican in 2019. In 2018, the pope visited the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/53QZqz5Nyb8","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpreslituaniaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpreslituaniaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47429"}],"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=47429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}