The Pope receives Macron at the Vatican on Monday

Francis and Emmanuel Macron meet, officially, for the third time since the arrival of the latter to the presidencyThe French president will participate together with religious and political leaders from around the world in a meeting for peaceFrancis and Macron met for the last time last NovemberThe Pope receives Emmanuel Macron at the Vatican on Monday. The meeting is part of the agenda that the President of France will have in Rome, where he will also participate in the international meeting for peace organized by the Community of Sant’ Edigio to promote interreligious dialogue and pray for peace. According to various French media , Macron will participate together with religious and political leaders from around the world in the International Meeting of Dialogue and Prayer for Peace. Last year, the event was attended by outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Francis will close this interreligious event on Tuesday afternoon at the Colosseum in Rome. The meeting on Monday 24 between the Pope and Macron will be the third official meeting in the Vatican and the first since he was re-elected as president of France. As usual in audiences with heads of state and government, after the face-to-face meeting with the Pope in the Vatican Apostolic Library, Macron will later meet with the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and with the Secretary for Relations with the States of the Holy See, the British Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher. The last time Francis received the French president at the Vatican was in November of last year, where they had a long conversation of more than an hour.