After the visits to Moscow and Kiev, Pope Francis sends Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, who is responsible for the war in Ukraine, to Washington. During his visit, “ideas and views on the current tragic situation” will be exchanged and new “humanitarian initiatives” will be discussed. This mainly concerns abducted children.
The humanitarian initiatives aim to “relieve the suffering of the most affected and vulnerable people, especially children,” the Vatican statement said. At the beginning of June, Zuppi, who is also president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, traveled to Kiev in the role of the Pope’s envoy. He met the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and visited the city of Bucha near Kiev. At the end of June, Zuppi visited Moscow and held talks with, among others, the Russian children’s commissioner Maria Lwowa-Belowa and the Russian Orthodox patriarch Kirill, who is controversial in the West.
The Vatican acts as a mediator
The visit to the US capital is now Zuppi’s third trip as part of his papal mission. Pope Francis has repeatedly called for a peace solution to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Since the start of the war in February last year, the Vatican has repeatedly offered to mediate. Other states such as China and Brazil had also launched peace talk initiatives. So far they have not yielded any results.
After his trip to Ukraine and Russia, Zuppi committed himself to a large-scale European peace initiative and to dialogue. “Dialogue is a fabric that can be woven in many ways,” said the cardinal. Many initiatives are needed to restore the “delicate fabric of peace”.
Source: Krone
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