The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, He will not attend the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday And he delegated the representation of the country in his wife, Verónica Alcocer, and in Foreign Minister Laura Sarabia, the government reported Thursday.
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“The First Lady, the Chancellor and the Ambassador to the Holy See, Alberto Ospina, travel,” The Foreign Ministry pointed out.
According to the Foreign Ministry, A delegation of the Colombian Embassy before the Holy See He went to the Basilica of San Pedro yesterday, where the Pontiff’s coffin is exposed, to pay tribute.
Petro expressed his sorrow last Monday for the death of Pope Francis, who highlighted his leadership “In the struggle for life.”
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Francisco “He perfectly understood his role as a spiritual leader in the great struggle for life. In the greedy causes of extinction.”Petro said in a message on his X account in which he added that “Its encyclicals will go down in history if we are able to build a humanity that defends its greatest good: life.”
According to the Holy See, Around fifty heads of state or government And ten Kings will attend the Pope’s funeral next Saturday in the Plaza de San Pedro del Vaticano.
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