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Saturday, March 19, 2022
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Saturday, March 19, 2022
Pope visits Ukrainian children being treated at Vatican hospital
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Pope Francis holds his weekly general audience at the Paul VI hall in the Vatican, on March 2, 2022. (Vincenzo Pinto/AFP)
Pope Francis visits Ukrainian children who have fled the Russian invasion and are being cared for at the Vatican’s pediatric hospital in Rome.
A smiling Francis, 85, reaches out to clasp the hands of children as he walks through a ward at the Bambino Gesu hospital in the capital, which is currently treating 19 Ukrainian children.
The Vatican says around 50 children in all have passed through the hospital since the war broke out.
Some were suffering oncological, neurological, and other problems before the crisis and “fled in the first days of the war,” it says.
Others were girls with “serious blast wounds” sustained in the clashes, it says.
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