“A The Holy See has worked as an intermediary in some of the prisoner exchange situations through the Russian Embassy to the Holy See and I think that can work in this case as well. »he said on the trip back to Italy at the end of his three-day visit to Hungary.

The Pope thus answered questions from journalists on the request of the Ukrainian Prime Minister to help with the return of the children.

Stressing that “the Holy See is always ready to do everything for just causes”, the head of the Catholic Church also called for “not to stop the commitment” in favor of Ukrainian refugees.

During the traditional conversation with journalists on board the papal plane, Francis also asked Europe to make a fair distribution of migrants, stressing that it is not always Malta, Cyprus, Spain, Italy and Greece which are suffering from the situation.

“It is a problem that must be tackled, it is in these five countries that the majority” of migrants land, he said, refusing to say if he discussed the question with the Prime Minister. Hungarian, Viktor Orban, who maintains a tough anti-government policy -immigration.

Another of the topics discussed during the press conference was the return of the art objects that are in the Vatican and that date back to the colonization of the American continent.

‘As far as possible, please we must give it back,’ Catholic Church leader says of Canada’s Indigenous Peoples’ petition over artwork in museum of the Vatican.

“Negotiations are ongoing” and the dialogue with the indigenous peoples has been “very fruitful”, he said, noting that some pieces have already been returned as a sign of goodwill.

“It is the seventh commandment, if you have stolen…”, said the pope, arguing that a judgment must be made on each case, because otherwise “the Egyptians come to complain and we cannot give them back their ‘obelisk [da praça de São Pedro]he said, concluding that “when you can, please give it back, so no one gets used to putting their hands in other people’s pockets.”

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