US Vice President JD Vance extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the Vatican on Monday ahead of a flurry of US-led diplomatic efforts to make progress on a ceasefire in Russia's war in Ukraine.
Vance gave the first American pope a letter from US President Donald Trump and the first lady inviting him.
The Chicago-born pope took the letter and put it on his desk and was heard saying at some point, in the video footage of the meeting provided by Vatican Media.
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