The Vatican publishes the picture of a kid who provides alms to the Pope in South Sudan, the poorest nation on the earth


The little one has given Francis a ticket price 0.007 euros. For the Holy See it’s a “image picture of the journey” to Central Africa “Whoever is poor donates all the things they’ve”, the Vatican has commented

The editorial director of the Vatican, Andrea Tornielli, has printed the snapshot of a South Sudanese boy whereas he provides alms to the Pope in South Sudan, the poorest nation on the earth, to the place he has traveled this Friday within the final leg of his journey to Central Africa, which began within the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In the picture you possibly can see a baby who, by a gate that separated him from the road by which the pontiff passes, moved in a wheelchair, has given him a ticket price 0.007 euros.

Francis was thus moved as he left the Juba Cathedral in South Sudan, the place he had simply met with nuns, clergymen and seminarians within the Cathedral of Santa Teresa.

Tornielli has made the picture public on social media, calling it a “image picture of the journey.” “Whoever is poor donates all the things she has”, she has commented.

When the nation launched the forex in 2011, the trade fee was $1 for each 2.75 South Sudanese kilos. To care for the extent of inflation, in March 2022, to purchase one greenback they wanted to pay 425 South Sudanese kilos.

The pontiff leads an ecumenical pilgrimage of peace within the African nation, accompanied by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Iain Greenshields.