The Video Of PM Modi Meeting Pope Francis Is Not Recent.

Recently Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Pope Francis on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Apulia, Italy.

On this backdrop, a video of PM Modi meeting Pope Francis is going viral on social media claiming it to be the recent one. Sharing the video on Facebook a user wrote, “Hon’ble PM Shri Narendra Modi ji greets His Holiness Pope Francis on the sidelines of the #G7 Summit in Italy. And invited him to India”.

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The same video was shared here too. Archived Link.

However, as we investigated, we came to know that the viral video is from 2021 and not related to the G7 summit in Italy. Here’s the fact check.

Fact Check

We started our investigation by taking some screenshots of the viral video and conducting a reverse image search. As a result, we found a news report published on Vatican News in October 2021. The report had images similar to the screenshots of the viral video. 

According to the report, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Pope Francis in the Vatican City on 30 October 2021. The report said, “On the morning of October 30, Pope Francis received Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of the Republic of India, in a private audience in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican; their conversation lasted about an hour”.

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Taking this clue, we ran a keyword search on YouTube and found the viral video uploaded on the official channel of PM Narendra Modi. The video was uploaded on 30 October 2021. The caption of the video read, “PM Modi meets Pope Francis in the Vatican City”.

Please watch some video reports here and here.

This makes it clear that the viral video is not related to the recent G7 summit in Italy. The video is from 2021 when PM Narendra Modi met Pope Francis in the Vatican City.

Conclusion 

From our investigation, we can say that the viral video has been shared with missing context. The video is not related to the recent G7 summit in Italy. It shows PM Narendra Modi meeting Pope Francis in the year 2021 in the Vatican City.