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Pope Francis has mentioned he faces a “interval of trial” as he thanked well-wishers on Sunday for his or her prayers.

The Argentine pontiff has been recovering in hospital from pneumonia, after he was admitted on 14 February.

In in the present day’s message, the 88-year-old referenced Biblical passages and prayed for peace in “nations wounded by struggle”.

It marked the fifth Sunday in a row the Pope was not current in particular person for his weekly blessing, though the Vatican mentioned earlier this week an X-ray had confirmed “enhancements” in his situation. It has since cautioned he nonetheless wants hospital remedy.

“The Holy Father nonetheless requires hospital medical remedy, motor and respiratory physiotherapy; these therapies, at current, are displaying additional, gradual enhancements,” it mentioned in a press release on Saturday.

The Pope has not been seen in public since his admission to hospital and no pictures have been launched of the non secular figurehead.

“I be part of with so many brothers and sisters who’re sick: fragile, right now, like me,” the Pope mentioned in his assertion in the present day.

“Allow us to proceed to hope for peace, particularly within the nations wounded by struggle: tormented Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Myanmar, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”

Since his arrival in Rome’s Gemelli hospital, the Pope has been handled for double pneumonia and different infections.

He has additionally suffered a number of respiratory crises, which has raised issues about his survival.

Earlier on this month, an audio recording of Pope Francis talking in his native Spanish was performed in St Peter’s Sq. in Vatican Metropolis.

His voice was breathless as he thanked the Catholic devoted for his or her prayers.

Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is the primary Pope from the Americas.

He contracted pleurisy as a younger man and had a partial lung elimination, which has left him notably weak to pneumonia.

On account of his lengthy load to restoration, there was hypothesis that Pope Francis may select to observe his predecessor Benedict XVI and resign the papacy.

However mates and biographers near the Pope have insisted he has no plans to step down. And, regardless of his fragile well being, the pontiff has continued his work from hospital.

This 12 months, 2025, is a Catholic Holy 12 months, with 32 million pilgrims anticipated to journey to Rome.