(24 Feb 2025)
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Rome – 24 February 2025
1. Various of well-wishers saying prayers in front of statue
2. Close of rosaries
3. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Giuseppe Pio Dragone, Catholic university student:
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“We came here today to unite in prayers and support the pope who needs all our prayers. We are a group from the university, and we’ve come to participate in this afternoon prayer and try to help as much as possible for the pope, we know his conditions are not that good.”
4. Wide of students in front of the statue
5. Various of nuns praying
6. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Piccerillo Antonietta, Catholic faithful:
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“I heard the news that he has some kidney insufficiency. May God help him, we can’t do much more other than say prayers for him and hope that all will go well.”
7. Close of the pope’s portrait on candles
STORYLINE:
A group of nuns, priests and students from a Catholic university gathered outside the Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Monday to pray for Pope Francis who is battling pneumonia.
The group of faithful gathered in prayer in front of the late Pope John Paul II’s statue at the Gemelli hospital main entrance.
“We’ve come to participate in this afternoon prayer and try to help as much as possible,” said Giuseppe Pio Dragone, who came with a group of Catholic university students.
Pope Francis remained in critical condition Monday but showed slight improvement in laboratory tests and resumed some work activities, including calling a parish in Gaza City that he has kept in touch with since the war there began, the Vatican said.
The Vatican’s evening bulletin was more upbeat than in recent days, as the 88-year-old Francis battles pneumonia in both lungs. It said he hadn’t had any more respiratory crises since Saturday and that the supplemental oxygen that he was using continued but with a slightly reduced oxygen flow and concentrations. The slight kidney insufficiency detected on Sunday was not causing alarm at the moment, doctors said, while saying his prognosis remained guarded.
He received the Eucharist in the morning and resumed working in the afternoon.
AP video by Florent Bajrami
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