VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) –– Pope Francis will not attend the United Nations COP28 climate change conference in Dubai this weekend. His doctors have instructed him not to make the trip.
In a statement issued Tuesday evening, the director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, stated:
Although the Holy Father’s general clinical picture has improved with regard to his flu-like condition and inflammation of the respiratory tract, doctors have asked the Pope not to make his planned trip to Dubai in the coming days for the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Pope Francis accepted the doctors’ request with great regret and the trip is therefore canceled. …..