After delivering his Easter greetings to a crowd estimated at over 35,000 from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis delegated the reading of his traditional « Urbi et Orbi » (« To the City and the World ») benediction to an associate. « It was a prayer for peace. He highlighted the situation of the vulnerable and the marginalised around the world, » France 24’s Seema Gupta reports.
