United States First Lady Melania Trump is a practising Catholic, her spokeswoman has confirmed.
Mrs Trump’s visit to the Vatican sparked speculation last week. She placed flowers at the feet of a statue of the Virgin Mary and spent time praying at the Bambino Gesù hospital. Earlier she and her husband Donald Trump had met Pope Francis for the first time. She gave the Pope rosary beads for him to bless.
It is unclear when Melania Trump, who was raised in a communist-supporting family in Slovenia, became a Catholic. She married Donald Trump, a lifelong Presbyterian, in 2005 at an Episcopal church in Palm Beach, Florida.
