With a wave of his hand, Cardinal Anders Arborelius, who came specially from Stockholm, blessed the pope’s car. The strange white Mitsubishi vehicle was locked in a glass cage. This is one of the cars of the papal fleet offered by the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, during the Pope’s visit to Palestine in 2014.
The latter then entrusted it to the Franciscans, who then turned the vehicle over to Caritas Jerusalem to convert it, with the support of the Swedish branch of the NGO, into a mobile clinic for injured and malnourished children who had lost regular access to care in Gaza.
