LISBON – Pope Francis won't be able to go to Moscow and Kyiv till after a gathering of non secular leaders in Kazakhstan on Sept. 13-15 on his physician’s orders as a consequence of a knee downside, he advised CNN Portugal in an interview to be aired in full in a while Monday.
In an excerpt revealed on the channel’s web site, Francis was requested about his beforehand introduced plans to go to Ukraine and Russia following his latest journey to Canada to foster dialogue for the tip of hostilities between the 2 international locations.
“Now I can't go as a result of after the journey to Canada there’s been a little bit of a setback with the knee restoration and the physician banned it, saying ‘Earlier than Kazakhstan you can not journey,’” Francis mentioned.
“However I've been sustaining contact over the phone … Amongst all of us, one thing may very well be executed. I’m following (the scenario) with my ache and my prayers. However the scenario is absolutely tragic,” he mentioned.
“I at all times consider that by having a dialogue, we advance.”
In an unique interview with Reuters in July, Francis mentioned he needed to go to Kyiv but additionally needed to go to Moscow, ideally first, to advertise peace.
He then advised Reuters he had suffered “a small fracture” within the knee when he took a misstep whereas a ligament was infected.
Francis is because of be within the Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan to attend the VII Congress of Leaders of World and Conventional Religions.
Francis has implicitly accused Russia of “armed conquest, expansionism and imperialism” in Ukraine.
The Vatican has not too long ago needed to evoke his condemnations of the struggle to fix strained relations with Ukraine after Francis upset Kyiv by referring to Russian ultra-nationalist Darya Dugina, who was killed by a automotive bomb close to Moscow, as an harmless sufferer of struggle.
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