The pope received Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, in the Vatican. The meeting was relaxed and quite short, lasting only 15 minutes.<\/p>\n
The pope was interested in the state of the African country, and used a translator to speak.<\/p>\n
As a gift, the Prime Minister gave him these embroidered fabrics that, he explained, 'are used to pray,' and a picture with the image of the Risen Christ.<\/p>\n
On his part, Pope Francis gave him a copy of his encyclicals, his message of the World Day of Peace and a medallion with a special message that the pope explained in detail.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> Before leaving, the Prime Minister and his six companions took the traditional photos with Pope Francis to conclude the visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 21, 2019. They met Monday afternoon for about 15 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":26533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bQfOhkweNCI","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpresidenteetiopiaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpresidenteetiopiaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48474"}],"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=48474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n'This medallion represents a desert with the grape and an ear of wheat. It is the prophecy of Isaiah, which means that one day the desert will become a garden.'<\/em><\/p>\n