Francis' 'pope-mobile' Being Converted Into Gaza Mobile Clinic

The Vatican confirmed that Pope Francis’ "pope-mobile" – a conveyance outfitted to protect nan pontiff during his 2014 travel to nan birthplace of Jesus Christ – is being converted into a mobile children's session successful Gaza according to nan Holy Father’s dying wish. 

The Catholic non-profit statement Caritas Jerusalem made nan announcement connected Sunday. 

In a property release, nan non-profit said that Francis directed nan humanitarian statement successful his last months to "turn his pope-mobile into a mobile wellness position for nan children successful Gaza." 

"The intent of nan inaugural is to safeguard and uphold children’s basal authorities and dignity," Caritas Jerusalem wrote, releasing nan first photos of nan converted pope-mobile. 

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Pope Francis waves to nan crowd from wrong his pope-mobile arsenic he arrives astatine Manger Square to observe an open-air wide connected May 25, 2014, successful nan West Bank Biblical municipality of Bethlehem.  (Vincenzo Pinto/AFP via Getty Images)

Peter Brune, Secretary General of Caritas Sweden, which is supporting nan initiative, said nan conveyance "will beryllium capable to scope children who coming person nary entree to healthcare – children who are injured and malnourished." 

"This is concrete, life-saving involution astatine a clip erstwhile nan wellness strategy successful Gaza has almost wholly collapsed," Brune said successful a statement. "It’s not conscionable a vehicle, it’s a connection that nan world has not forgotten astir nan children successful Gaza." 

"The conveyance represents nan love, attraction and closeness shown by His Holiness for nan astir vulnerable, which he expressed passim nan crisis," Secretary General of Caritas Jerusalem Anton Asfar said successful a statement. 

Swedish Cardinal Anders Arborelius – a contender to go nan adjacent pope aft Francis' passing connected April 21 – besides confirmed nan repurposing of nan pope-mobile to nan New York Times. 

"The papamobile is simply a very actual motion that Pope Francis is concerned pinch each nan suffering of children successful Gaza, moreover aft his death!" Arborelius wrote to nan Times. 

The aforesaid Catholic kindness web handling nan "pope-mobile" task notably slammed nan Trump administration's cuts to nan United States Agency for International Development (USAID) successful February. 

"Stopping USAID abruptly will termination millions of group and condemn hundreds of millions much to lives of dehumanizing poverty," Caritas Internationalis Secretary General Alistair Dutton said astatine nan time. "This is an inhumane affront to people’s God-given quality dignity, that will origin immense suffering. Killing USAID besides presents monolithic challenges for each of america successful nan world humanitarian community, who will person to wholly reassess whom we tin proceed to service and how."

The State Department has integrated nan remaining functions of USAID, arsenic nan section undergoes a monolithic restructuring. 

Pope Francis waves to nan crowd, from his pope-mobile, connected May 25, 2014, extracurricular nan Church of nan Nativity successful nan West Bank Biblical municipality of Bethlehem. (Abbas Momani/AFP via Getty Images)

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Francis approved nan "pope-mobile" task successful November 2024, nan Times reported. The Catholic Church was talented a new, all-electric "pope-mobile," based connected nan Mercedes-Benz G-Class, an SUV, successful December, according to USA Today. 

Vatican News, nan charismatic news root of nan Vatican, besides picked up nan announcement. The conveyance will beryllium staffed "by a driver and aesculapian doctors" and is presently being fitted pinch instrumentality for diagnosis, introspection and treatment, including accelerated tests for infections, suture kits, syringes and needles, oxygen supply, vaccines and a refrigerator for medicines, according to nan non-profit. 

"The humanitarian business successful Gaza is progressively critical, particularly for nan astir 1 cardinal displaced children," Caritas Jerusalem wrote. "When entree to food, h2o and healthcare is trim off, children are often nan first and hardest hit. Starvation, infection and different preventable conditions put their lives astatine risk." 

Before his passing, Francis "made his pope-mobile disposable to Caritas Jerusalem, which is now turning it into a mobile wellness portion for children," according to nan nonprofit. "When nan humanitarian corridor to Gaza reopens, it will beryllium fresh to springiness superior healthcare to children successful Gaza." 

Francis had many times called for a cease-fire successful Gaza during nan Israel-Hamas war, which began connected Oct. 7, 2023, erstwhile Hamas terrorists killed much than 1,200 group successful Israel and took hundreds much into Gaza arsenic hostages. 

Pope Francis waves to nan crowd from wrong his pope-mobile connected his measurement to Manger Square to observe an open-air wide connected May 25, 2014, successful nan West Bank. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP via Getty Images)

The precocious pontiff has progressively condemned nan Israeli military's consequence and nan deaths of Palestinian children. 

In his last Easter reside earlier his passing, Francis said nan humanitarian business was "dramatic and deplorable." 

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"I definitive my closeness to nan sufferings ... of each nan Israeli group and nan Palestinian people," he said successful a connection publication aloud by an aide, according to Reuters. "I entreaty to nan warring parties: telephone a ceasefire, merchandise nan hostages and travel to nan assistance of a starving group that aspires to a early of peace."