ABOARD PAPAL PLANE - The Vatican is involved in a peace mission to try to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Pope Francis said on Sunday (April 30), adding that it was also ready to help repatriate Ukrainian children taken to Russia or Russian-occupied land. 'There is a mission in course now but it is not yet public. When...
Pope Francis holds a news conference as he returns to the Vatican following his apostolic journey to Hungary, aboard the plane, on April 30, 2023.ABOARD PAPAL PLANE - The Vatican is involved in a peace mission to try to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Pope Francis said on Sunday , adding that it was also ready to help repatriate Ukrainian children taken to Russia or Russian-occupied land.
The pope added that he had spoken about the situation in Ukraine with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and with Metropolitan Hilarion, a representative of the Russian Orthodox Church in Budapest. Pope Francis, 86, has said previously that he wants to visit Kyiv but also Moscow on a peace mission.
"The Holy See is willing to do this because it is the right thing," Francis said on the plane. "All human gestures help but gestures of cruelty don't help. We have to do all that is humanly possible".
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