Pope Francis reappears and condemns the cold death of a homeless person near the Vatican

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He Pope Francisco He reappeared today after the sciatica attack that prevented him from celebrating this Sunday, denouncing the recent cold death of a homeless person of Nigerian nationality in Rome who had been “abandoned by everyone”.

The Pope called this man by name, Edwin, 46, Nigerian, found dead from the cold on January 20 a few meters from St. Peter’s SquareHe explained it at the end of the Sunday Angelus prayer.

His act adds to that of many other homeless people who have recently died in Rome in the same dramatic circumstances. Let’s pray for Edwin. Let’s think about what this 46-year-old man felt out in the cold, ignored by everyone, also abandoned by us “he insisted.

Francisco has always been concerned about the situation of these people and has opened showers and a barber shop in the square, and recently inaugurated a residence to receive beggars in the capital in a nearby 19th-century palace.

In addition, the 25th of the homeless people were vaccinated against the corona virus in the Vatican on Wednesday.

The Pope celebrated the Angelus’ prayer despite another bout of sciatica that prevented him from leading mass this Sunday and postponing the meeting with the diplomatic corps tomorrow, Monday, among other things..

In his catechesis for the Angelus, Francis urged to change the mindset of the world and to avoid ‘the sin of worldliness’ that ‘like the air pervades everything’ and ’causes deceit, violence, greed, lust for power and not after service’, wars and exploitation ”.

The Pope also had words for journalists, for the feast of Saint Francis de Sales, his patron, and for them he encouraged “going and seeing the places where no one wants to go” to tell the events of the world “truthfully”.

And he encouraged families in financial straits from the pandemic.

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