VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis mentioned on Friday there was no obvious finish in sight to the warfare in Ukraine as his peace envoy wrapped up three days of talks in Moscow.
“The tragic reality of this war that seems to have no end demands of everyone a common creative effort to imagine and forge paths of peace,” the pope instructed a non secular delegation from the Patriarch of Constantinople.
The Vatican mentioned in a subsequent assertion that the pope’s envoy, Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, had completed his consultations in Moscow, the place he had met considered one of President Vladimir Putin’s advisers, Yuri Ushakov, and the top of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill.
“(The visit was) aimed at identifying humanitarian initiatives, which could open roads to peace,” the assertion mentioned. It added that additional steps can be taken, however gave no particulars.
Francis has known as repeatedly for an finish to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has destroyed Ukrainian villages and cities, prompted the deaths of tens of hundreds of individuals and pushed thousands and thousands extra from their houses.
The pope requested Zuppi in May to function his peace envoy and the cardinal visited Kyiv earlier this month for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. — Reuters
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