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Pope’s trip to Lebanon in June postponed for health reasons: sources

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Pope Francis’s deliberate journey to Lebanon subsequent month has been postponed as a result of the 85-year-old pontiff has skilled problem strolling not too long ago, sources stated on Monday.

In latest weeks, the pope has suffered a flare-up of ache in the appropriate knee along with a longtime case of sciatica, which additionally causes ache within the legs.

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The June 12-13 journey had been introduced by the Lebanese authorities. The Vatican by no means formally introduced the journey, however Francis has referred to plans referring to it in latest interviews.

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The 2 sources, who spoke on situation of anonymity as a result of they weren’t approved to debate such issues, stated the pope’s well being was the primary concern.

Pope Francis arrives on a wheelchair to fulfill with members within the plenary meeting of the Worldwide Union of Superiors Common on the Vatican, Might 5, 2022.
(Reuters/Guglielmo Mangiapane/File Photograph)

A plan for the pope to go from Lebanon to Jerusalem on June 14 to fulfill Kirill, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, had already been canceled due to the conflict in Ukraine.

The Lebanon journey will seemingly happen after the summer season, one supply stated.

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Francis is because of make two journeys in July, one to South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo and the opposite to Canada.

Final Thursday, he used a wheelchair in public for the primary time and has used one since throughout personal and public audiences.

 

He advised an Italian newspaper final week that he was receiving injections to assist motion of his joints.

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