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Pope Francis calls priest in Gaza as health slightly improves

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Updated Feb 25, 2025 09:48 AM PHT

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Pope Francis’s condition has slightly improved, the Vatican said Monday, enough that he has already made a phone call to a parish priest in Gaza.

Fr. Greg Gaston, rector of the Pontificio Collegio Filippino in Rome, said the 6:46 p.m. (1:46 a.m.) update from the Holy See said the pope has had no new episodes of asthma-like respiratory distress. 

“Ibig sabihin ‘yung kanyang paghinga ok na ok (It means his breathing is very much OK),” he said.

Oxygen flow levels have also been reduced slightly even as the Pope is slowly getting back to work, the Vatican said. The Holy See earlier said that before his hospitalization, the Pope had been calling a parish priest - an Argentinian - in Gaza every day to check on conditions there.

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The 88-year-old pontiff is receiving treatment for pneumonia and a complex lung infection at Rome's Gemelli hospital.

Thousands of Catholic faithful gathered at St. Peter's Square on Monday evening (February 24) for a prayer service for Pope Francis.

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