Pope Francis spoke about his possible next trips and said that,everything will depend on his state of health.
“I have all the good will, but we will see what the leg says,” the Holy Father said at the press conference he offered on the flight back from Canada to Rome.
When asked if he will go to Kazakhstan and Ukraine, Pope Francis replied: “I said that I would like to go to Ukraine, now we will see what I find when I get home. To Kazakhstan, for the moment, I would like to go, it is a calm trip without movement, there will be a congress of religions there”.
At the end of May it was reported that the Holy Father will attend the VII Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, to be held in Nur-Sultan in September, in Kazakhstan.
“But for the moment everything stays as it is, because I have to go to South Sudan before the Congo, because it is a trip with the (Anglican) Archbishop of Canterbury and with the Bishop of the Church of Scotland, the three of us together as we did the I retired a couple of years ago,” added the Holy Father.
“Then the Congo, but it will be next year due to the rainy season… we will see,” the Pope said, commenting that it will be his state of health that will allow him to travel or not.
Pope Francis was due to travel to the Congo and South Sudan at the beginning of this month of July, but his knee injury prevented him from doing so.
Instead he sent the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, to visit both African countries.