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The President of the ICRC received by the Pope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Extract

His Holiness Pope Paul VI granted the President of the International Committee a private audience in the Vatican on 12 May 1972.

In the course of the audience, the Holy Father expressed to the President of the ICRC his appreciation of the activities which the ICRC was pursuing and which the Church intended to support to the fullest possible extent.

Mr. Naville referred to the ICRC's tasks in many parts of the world. He described the difficulties which the Red Cross was encountering in its humanitarian action but also recalled the gratifying results of ICRC activities in various countries.

Type
International Committee of the Red Cross
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1972

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