US Vice President JD Vance attends Good Friday liturgy at the Vatican

ROME – United States Vice President JD Vance attended a Passion liturgy at the Vatican on Friday and plans to meet senior Vatican officials Saturday, amid tensions with Pope Francis and his top aides on multiple issues, including the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

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Mr Vance, a Catholic convert, arrived in Italy on Friday morning as part of an April 18-24 tour of Italy and India.

After arriving, he had a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni following Meloni’s own visit to Washington a day prior, where she met with Mr Vance and US President Donald Trump amid the United States’s ongoing trade war and growing anti-European sentiment within the Trump administration.

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