{"id":77528,"date":"2025-05-19T13:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T11:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=77528"},"modified":"2025-05-20T10:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T08:46:20","slug":"first-face-to-face-meeting-between-pope-leo-xiv-and-zelensky-at-the-vatican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2025\/05\/19\/first-face-to-face-meeting-between-pope-leo-xiv-and-zelensky-at-the-vatican\/","title":{"rendered":"First face-to-face meeting between Pope Leo XIV and Zelensky at the Vatican."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Zelensky and Pope Leo the 14<sup>th<\/sup> had already spoken by phone regarding the situation in Ukraine. However, once in the context of the new Pope's inaugural mass, they resumed the conversation.<br><br>The meeting with Zelensky was one of the two official appointments on the Pope\u2019s schedule. The first was with Dina Boluarte, the president of Peru.<br><br>After that, he met with the Ukrainian leader and his wife. They gave the Pope a painting as a gift, which depicts Ukrainian children who are suffering the consequences of the war\u2014many of them deported to Russia.<br><br>In fact, the wooden canvas of the painting was once a box used to store heavy artillery ammunition.<br><br>In a social media message after the visit, Zelensky said he hoped for the Vatican\u2019s support in returning both children and prisoners to Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how the first meeting between Pope Leo XIV and President Zelensky went. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":77525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/m26NF0KjdEQ","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bzelenskyvaticanoeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bzelenskyvaticanoint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77528"}],"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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77528"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77570,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77528\/revisions\/77570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}