{"id":84058,"date":"2023-11-29T12:27:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T12:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/pope-francis-not-well-as-he-struggles-to-read-speech-at-the-vatican-world-news\/"},"modified":"2023-11-29T12:27:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T12:27:44","slug":"pope-francis-not-well-as-he-struggles-to-read-speech-at-the-vatican-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/pope-francis-not-well-as-he-struggles-to-read-speech-at-the-vatican-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis ‘not well’ as he struggles to read speech at The Vatican | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The pope asked an aide to read his speech for him at his weekly audience in the Vatican on Wednesday, with the 86-year-old “not well” enough.<\/p>\n

Pope Francis<\/strong>, who on Tuesday cancelled a three-day trip for COP28<\/strong> in Dubai scheduled for the weekend, coughed near the end of the hour-long audience with the public as he made some final comments.<\/p>\n

He then stood up from his chair in the Vatican’s auditorium to give his blessing, and with a voice barely above a whisper he said “since I am not well” his reading would not sound “pretty”.<\/p>\n

The pope then handed his printed speech to the aide – but he did speak at the end of the audience to voice support for the truce between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n

He added he hopes “all the hostages are released and access necessary to permit humanitarian aid” to reach Gaza is provided.<\/p>\n

“They lack bread, water, the people are suffering,” Pope Francis said.<\/p>\n

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Doctors had asked the pope – who had part of one lung removed as a young man and has a lung inflammation causing breathing problems – to cancel his trip to COP28.<\/p>\n

The Vatican says his condition has improved, but noted he had the flu and “inflammation of the respiratory airways”.<\/p>\n

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According to the Holy See, the pope still wants to participate in the discussions in some way.<\/p>\n

Towards the end of Wednesday’s audience, circus performers came on stage to entertain him with an acrobatic act.<\/p>\n

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“I want to say thanks for this moment of joy,” Pope Francis said, adding the circus expresses the human dimension of “simple joy”.<\/p>\n

He was taken to hospital earlier this year for three days for intravenous treatment with antibiotics of what the Vatican then said was bronchitis.<\/p>\n

A CT scan, performed at a Rome hospital on 25 November, had ruled out pneumonia, according to the Vatican.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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