The President of Slovakia, Andrej Kiska, warmly greeted Pope Francis in his native tongue, with the help of a translator. <\/p>\n
\u201cYour Holiness, I bring you greetings from the entire population of Slovakia, especially the believers.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> They took pictures and Pope Francis even joked about all the photographers. <\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> Then, the president gave four Christmas decorations to the pope. They were created by socially disadvantaged people.<\/p>\n \u201cThey wrote their prayer intentions on it for you, Your Holiness.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Two of the ornaments are made by families with handicapped children and students of a primary school in Slovakia.<\/p>\n Another one was made by children from a children\u2019s home and the fourth was designed by the homeless.<\/p>\n Then the president showed images of when he personally went to pick up these gifts.<\/p>\n Pope Francis gave him the little olive branch as a symbol of peace.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> He also gave the president a copy of his four most important works before he asked the pope to visit his country.<\/p>\n \u201cThis would bring an immense joy to our country and our people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cNow I accept the invitation... let's see when I can go.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Before leaving, the pope asked a favor of the president. <\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> \u201cThank you Your Holiness, from my heart. I wish you happy holidays. We are praying for you, we all are praying for you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Then they said goodbye wishing each other a Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 14, 2018. The two warmly greeted each other and Pope Francis said he will have to see when he can visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":26888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yG7POjVkdIo","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bslovakiapresidenteng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bslovakiapresidentint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48593"}],"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=48593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n \u201cThis is the second time that we are meeting.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n \u201cNow, photo protocol.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n \u201cI wanted to give you this simple gift, made by an artist. It is a symbol of peace.\u201d \u201cAlso the Message of Peace from this year. I signed it for you today.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n \u201cPresident, I must ask you a favor. If you can bring this to your father from me. And this, from my heart, if you can bring it to <\/em>Archbishop Bez\u00e1k.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n