Thursday March 27 – U.S president Barack Obama and Pope Francis met for the first time at Vatican City.
Obama had flown to Rome after three days of talks with world leaders in the Netherlands and Brussels.
Obama and Pope Francis greeted each other with a smile and a handshake, and posed for pictures. And, then they sit down across a table for a discussion that focused on international conflict, human rights and religious freedom.
Obama presented Pope Francis with a variety of fruit and vegetable seeds used in the White House garden.
And, Pope Francis gave Obama two medals and a leather-bound copy of Evangeli Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospels), Francis’s self-written guide to his papacy.
