Pope Francis has called in his Christmas message for nations to share Covid-19 vaccines, saying walls of nationalism could not be built to stop a pandemic that knows no borders.
In a sign of the times, the Pontiff delivered his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) message virtually from a lectern inside the Vatican instead of from the central balcony of St.
Peter's Basilica before tens of thousands. The pandemic and its social and economic effects dominated the message, in which he called for global unity and help for nations suffering from conflicts and humanitarian crises. "At this moment in history, marked by the ecological crisis and grave economic and social imbalances only worsened by the coronavirus pandemic, it is