Pope sends cardinal to DC to promote Ukraine peace aleteia.org
After visiting Ukraine and Russia, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi will be in Washington, DC, from July 17 to 19 as Pope Francis’ envoy, the Holy See Press Office announced July 17. The archbishop of Bologna and president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, who is close to the Community of Sant’Egidio, will be accompanied by an official from the Vatican’s Secretariat of State on this new leg of his peace mission.
The Holy See statement explains this visit takes place “in the context of the mission intended to promote peace in Ukraine.” Two parts of this mission have already taken place.
Cardinal Zuppi first went to Kyiv from June 5 to 6 and met the nation’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. The prelate then traveled to Moscow from June 28 to 30, where he met Patriarch Kirill; the President’s advisor on international affairs, Yuri Ushakov; and the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova.
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