BARI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pope Francis met with a warm embrace at the Outreach session of the G7 Summit at Apulia in southern Italy on Friday.

Modi and Pope Francis joined with other world leaders to discuss pressing global issues. Modi was seen in a light-hearted exchange with the Pope Francis, head of the worldwide Catholic Church.  Pope Francis was taken around the table in a wheelchair to greet each of the world leaders gathered at the summit venue of Borgo Egnazia.

Pope Francis in his address at the outreach session G7 Global Summit said that it is up to each of us to make good use of AI.  The Pope Francis said that the topic of Artificial Intelligence, Energy, Africa and the Mediterranean, attended by the participants of the G7 and other leaders of the Global South invited by Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni in her capacity as President of this year’s summit.

She greeted the Holy Father and then joined the wheelchair-bound octogenarian as he greeted leaders with handshakes including US President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, and French President Emmanuel Macron among others.