Pope Francis accepts a gift during an audience with a group of musicians, actors, poets, painters, dancers, sculptors and architects at the Vatican Feb. 17, 2022. The artists belong to a movement called “Diakonia of Beauty,” created in 2012 to foster dialogue between artists and the church. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)An interior view shows a kindergarten classroom damaged by shelling in Stanytsia Luhanska, Ukraine, Feb. 17, 2022. (CNS photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters)Rescue workers and residents search for victims at the site of a mudslide in Petrópolis, Brazil, Feb. 16, 2022, following more than 10 inches of rain in six hours. Bishop Gregório Paixão Neto asked priests and parishioners to take in people who needed shelter after the Feb. 15 mudslides. (CNS photo/Ricardo Moraes, Reuters)Omaira Pérez Lazo offers a canoe paddle, a symbol of Amazonian people’s close connection with the region’s rivers, during Mass Feb. 13, 2022, in Iquitos, Peru, where prayers were offered for people suffering from oil spills in the Amazon and on the Peruvian coast. (CNS photo/Barbara Fraser)Gonzague Browaeys, and Theophile Robin, cut wood outside the Shrine of Our Lady Queen of Palestine in Deir Rafat, Israel, Feb. 11, 2022. Riding on motorcycles from France through six countries to Greece, the 23-three-year-old French pilgrims arrived by plane in Israel Jan. 14, just as Israel reopened its borders to visitors. (CNS photo/Debbie Hill)
Author: Catholic News Service
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