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What did Colombia’s president ask the Pope and what does it have to do with Trump and the USA? Here is the answer

President Petro did not shy away from bold appeals. He framed climate change not as an abstract threat but as the existential pivot around which global politics—and humanity’s survival—must now turn. “If the U.S. government continues to treat migration as the core issue,” he told the Pope, “it will end up sacrificing its own children.”

Leader of Ukrainian Catholics visits the Pope and invites him to Ukraine: “his visit would contribute to stop the war”

“The Vatican’s involvement has already made a difference,” he said, noting that treatment improves when prisoners are known to be on the Holy See’s radar. He asked Pope Leo XIV to continue the work begun under Pope Francis, who had engaged discreetly in prisoner exchanges and negotiations behind the scenes.