German Chancellor Angela Merkel on a visit to the Vatican on Saturday met
with Pope Francis and discussed efforts to end the bloody conflict in Ukraine.
Mrs Merkel, who played a key role in negotiating the latest ceasefire, had
a private audience with the pope where the two underlined their "commitment
to reaching a peaceful solution to the conflict in Ukraine", a Vatican
statement said.
Pope Francis and Mrs Merkel also discussed poverty, women's rights, health
and the environment - topics that will be on the agenda at the G7 summit which Germany
will host in June, the statement added.
The daughter of a Protestant minister, Mrs Merkel recently expressed how
her Christian faith had an "important" place in her life.
The German chancellor arrived in Rome on Friday with a 15-member delegation
and paid a surprise visit to the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican Museum, a
Vatican source said.
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