The Vatican is involved in a peace mission to try to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Pope Francis says, declining to give further details.
The Vatican is involved in a peace mission to try to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Pope Francis says, adding that it was also ready to help repatriate Ukrainian children taken to Russia or Russian-occupied land.
Pope Francis, 86, has said previously that he wants to visit Kyiv but also Moscow on a peace mission. Last week Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal met with Francis at the Vatican and asked him to help return Ukrainian children taken following the Russian invasion.“I asked His Holiness to help us return home Ukrainians, Ukrainian children who are detained, arrested, and criminally deported to Russia,” Shmyhal told the Foreign Press Association after the audience.
Francis, who appeared in relatively good condition during the trip, also spoke of his health following his hospitalisation in late March for what the Vatican said at the time was bronchitis.He said he felt a strong pain at the end of his general audience on Wednesday, March 29 and tried to sleep.
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