Alfie Evans' father begs Pope Francis to ‘save our son’

Father of seriously ill British toddler flies to Vatican to urge pontiff to intervene in legal fight

The father of a 23-month-old boy at the centre of a life-support treatment battle has had a private audience with the pope during which he kissed the pontiff’s hand and asked him to “save our son”.

Evans, whose son Alfie has a rare degenerative brain disease, posted on Facebook that he had flown to the Vatican on Tuesday evening and met Pope Francis for 20 minutes.

Continue reading... April 18, 2018 at 05:34PM