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Homeless woman gives birth near Vatican, receives aid offer
Faithful gather near a banner adorned with various country flags and a writing which reads: Thank You Pope Francis, as they wait for the start of the Angelus noon prayer in St
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Faithful gather near a banner adorned with various country flags and a writing which reads: Thank You Pope Francis, as they wait for the start of the Angelus noon prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Jan. 17, 2016. (AP/Alessandra Tarantino) (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)
Faithful gather near a banner adorned with various country flags and a writing which reads: Thank You Pope Francis, as they wait for the start of the Angelus noon prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Jan. 17, 2016. (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)
The Vatican says it is offering a place to stay to a homeless woman who gave birth near St. Peter's Square.
She's thinking about it.
Italian police say a patrol stopped to help the woman after she gave birth in a square just beyond Vatican territory about 2 a.m. Wednesday, when temperatures were hovering around freezing. They covered her with their jackets and called an ambulance that took her to a nearby hospital.
Pope Francis' charity official, Monsignor Konrad Krajewski, visited mother and baby in hospital. Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said Krajewski offered the woman a place for a year at a Vatican-owned residence for mothers and babies in need.
Lombardi says the woman hasn't decided whether to accept.
