DAD HELPS TO COLOMBIA IN PROCESS OF PEACE WITH THE FARC

After a hearing deprived with the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, the dad Francisco it offered him his "help" and that of the catholic church for the process of peace with the guerrilla warfare of the FARC in Colombia. " What it could make I personally or the Church possesses us. We support it and if it is necessary that we play a paper are ready to do it, to it helping ", said the dad Francisco, as it reported Saints at the conclusion of the hearing. The dad Francisco, who received the Colombian president and his procession in the Room of the Tronetto, adjacent to his Private Library, 

It exclaimed on having seen the chief of the State: " what taste to return to seeing it! ". And Saints it answered: " The taste is mine ". Then, in the Library, the Argentine dad him said to Saints: " You are the person for whom more I have prayed, greatly, greatly, for the process of peace ". And the president Santos said to him for your part: " To it I have come, to asking for his help ". The secretary of the emeritus dad Benedicto XVI and Prefect of the House Pontificia, the German Georg Gaenswein, received in San Dámaso's court to the Colombian delegation composed by a dozen of persons. 

After the conversation that they supported privately, the pontiff and the Colombian president, one proceeded to the habitual exchange of gifts. Saints there delivered to the Pope a china of ceramics painted to hand proceeding from the locality of Carmen de Viboral (Antioch) and the pontiff gave to the Colombian president a medallion of St Martin of Tours, which symbolizes the values of solidarity, altruism and participation. Francisco him said to Saints that he likes to give this medallion of St Martin to the leaders " because he they remembers that they have to embrace to the poor ". Saints, for your part, he said to Bergoglio that " in these four years Colombia has been the country where more it has lowered the poverty of the whole Latin America ". 

Together with the Colombian president there came to the hearing in the Vatican his son, Martin Santos, the chancellor Maria Aµngela Holguín, the secretary adviser of Communication, Pilar Calderón, and the new ambassador before the Vatican, Guillermo León Escobar Herrán. One of the members of the Colombian delegation was taking a banderita of Colombia with a dove of the peace, which habitually is on the office of the Colombian president and which received the benediction of the dad.