Overview
- Children at a Quezon City Catholic church, who gathered Saturday, handed peace cranes to Philippine clergy to be taken to Pope Leo XIV.
- About 200 children took part as the parish framed the paper birds as prayers for peace and for an end to war.
- Parish priest Father Reyes urged participants to show solidarity with the Pope’s efforts for world peace by sending the cranes.
- Archbishop Brown joined in folding cranes at the church and said the cranes would be delivered to the Pope.
- Kyodo News reported the ceremonial handover and noted there was no confirmation that the Vatican had received the cranes.