
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis will meet separately next week with relatives of hostages held by Hamas militants and with a group of Palestinians with family members in Gaza, the Vatican said on Friday, confirming a Reuters report. "With these meetings, which are of an exclusively humanitarian character, Pope Francis wants to show his spiritual closeness to the sufferings of both," Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a statement. The meetings will be held on Wednesday in the Vatican. "Every human being, whether Christian, Jew or Muslim, of any people or religion, ev...




