ROME — Pope Francis said on Saturday that a potential shuttle to Kyiv, Ukraine, become "on the table," a possibility that he floated all over a papal flight to Malta, the place he all started a brief commute emphasizing the plight of migrants.
The shuttle, at the start deliberate for may also 2020 and postponed as a result of the pandemic, now comes amid a further global disaster with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Russia's bombing of civilians and the displacement of millions of refugees and people within Ukraine. earlier than leaving Rome, the pope met with Ukrainian ladies and children who had escaped the struggle.
The plight of migrants and refugees has lengthy topped the pontiff's agenda. On the flight to Malta, Francis answered to a reporter's query about visiting Kyiv by means of saying that it turned into "on the table."
Francis, eighty five, wearing his white robes over black pants, later met with officers and dignitaries of Malta, an island that Roman Catholic scriptures say welcomed the Apostle Paul with "unusual kindness" when he was shipwrecked there on the way to Rome.
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