Pope Wants Ceasefire – level 1

03-04-2020 15:00

The UN Secretary-General says that he wants a global ceasefire. He wants to stop wars. He wants to fight the coronavirus.

Pope Francis agrees with him. He says that countries do not need to fight. He says that countries need to help each other. They also need to help people who can get sick easily. These people live in prisons. Other people live in nursing homes.

Earlier this week in Vatican City, there are six confirmed cases of coronavirus. A Vatican official says that the Pope does not have the illness. The people he works with do not have it, either.

Difficult words: global ceasefire (when the leaders of countries all over the world agree not to fight), nursing home (a place for old people to live), confirmed cases (prove that someone has a condition, such as an illness).

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