“The Nicaraguan government has forced the Holy See to close its embassy in the Central American country after Pope Francis described President Daniel Ortega's regime as a "crude dictatorship". Vatican News said Mgr. Marcel Diouf, the diplomat who had been overseeing the papal nunciature... ”
“It was in the name of this spiritual dimension that Francis personally went to the Russian Embassy to the Holy See on Feb 25, just a few hours after the invasion. As the capitals of the world were studying how to sanction Moscow, diplomats voiced mixed reactions to the pope's initiative.”