Cardinal Krajewski returns to Ukraine to deliver 4 ambulances donated by Pope Francis

Pope Francis has donated four ambulances to Ukraine, which will be destined to areas affected by the conflict, in a specific gesture of their closeness and concern for those who suffer the devastating effects of the war.

As reported on Monday, the Dicasterio for Charity, will be Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, Pontifical Limosnero, in charge of delivering these ambulances that add to medical equipment that has been donated in the past.

On other occasions, the Pontiff has blessed the ambulances before the trip, but this time the press office has not specified it.

“The Holy Father has decided to send Ukraine again to his eminence to donate four ambulances, equipped with all the medical instruments necessary to save lives, which will be destined to the war zones,” reads the statement.

Cardinal Krajewski will be assisted during his trip, which will include visits to areas where there are active fighting, for three other Ukraine drivers. The purple also goes to the country “to be with people so proven by the conflict, pray with them and be an expression of the Pope’s closeness,” said the Vatican.

The Polish cardinal, which since 2013 Pontifical Limosnero, in charge of fulfilling charity works on behalf of the Holy Father, has already visited the country more than a dozen times since the outbreak of the war.

In the press release the words of Pope Francis are cited, pronounced on Easter Day of 2024 in the message City and the World: Only Jesus “opens the doors of life, those doors that we closely close with the wars that ravage the world.”

For the Vatican, these statements “become action to tear down the closures and bring the Easter light to the darkness of darkness.”

In fact, they framed the donation of the Pontiff in “This time of Pascual Renaissance” in which the Pope wanted to have “a gesture of closeness in one of the most painful places where war has been doing wreaked for three years: the tormented Ukraine.”

“Three years that for the Holy Father are a ‘painful and shameful anniversary for humanity’. Pope Francis always remembers the country of Eastern Europe both in the prayer of the Angelus and in his calls for peace in which there are constant references to other dramatic scenarios such as Palestine, Israel, Myanmar, Kivu and Sudan,” reads the statement. “The gift of the four ambulances thus becomes a sign of retired hope anchored in Christ,” he adds.

Last Friday, in a new diplomatic encounter between the Vatican and Russia, Mons. Paul Richard Gallagher, secretary for relations with the states and international organizations of the Holy See, called Sergei Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

As the Press Office of the Holy See, “the dialogue focused on the general panorama of world policy, with special attention to the situation of the conflict in Ukraine and some initiatives to stop the war actions.”