内容摘要：Protesters hold pictures of Palestinian children killed during Israel’s military operation in the Gaza Strip in a protest demanding the end of the war, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, May 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Protesters hold pictures of Palestinian children killed during Israel’s military operation in the Gaza Strip in a protest demanding the end of the war, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, May 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

, the 13th century friar known for personal simplicity and care for society’s outcasts.Francis formally apologized to Indigenous peoples for the crimes of the church from colonial times onward. And he went to society’s fringes to minister with mercy: caressing the deformed head of a man in St. Peter’s Square, kissing the tattoo of a Holocaust survivor, or inviting Argentina’s garbage scavengers to join him onstage in Rio de Janeiro.

“We have always been marginalized, but Pope Francis always helped us,” said Coqui Vargas, a transgender woman whose Roman community forged a unique relationship with Francis.His first trip as pope was to the Italian island of Lampedusa, then the epicenter of Europe’s migration crisis. He consistently chose to visit poor countries where Christians were often persecuted minorities, rather than the centers of global Catholicism.Pope Francis helped to get on his car at the end of weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, March 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Pope Francis helped to get on his car at the end of weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, March 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)Friend and fellow Argentine, Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, said his concern was based on the Beatitudes — the eight blessings Jesus delivered in the Sermon on the Mount for the meek, the merciful, the poor in spirit and others.

“Why are the Beatitudes the program of this pontificate? Because they were the basis of Jesus Christ’s own program,” Sánchez said.

A man is arrested during a protest against Pope Francis and the Vatican’s handling of sex abuse cases in Santiago, Chile, Jan. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)A woman carries her dog as she walks on a street with pieces of broken glass at the site of a residential building that was damaged after a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

“If anyone still doubts Russia wants war to continue — read the news,” Katarina Mathernová wrote on the social network.The debris of intercepted missiles and drones fell in at least six Kyiv city districts. According to the acting head of the city’s military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, six people required medical care after the attack and two fires were sparked in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district.

The Obolon district, where a residential building was heavily damaged in the attack, was the hardest hit with at least five wounded in the area, the administration said.Yurii Bondarchuk, a local resident, said the air raid siren “started as usual, then the drones started to fly around as they constantly do.” Moments later, he heard a boom and saw shattered glass fly through the air.