According to Italian public television Rai, during his conversation with the Russian ambassador at the Vatican today, Pope Francis offered to personally mediate between Russia and Ukraine, with the aim of ending the bombing and the withdrawal of Moscow's military forces.
Francis, at the same time, always according to Rai, added that he is willing to mediate and the Catholic Church as a religious institution as a whole.
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This morning, Pope Francis visited the Russian ambassador to the Vatican and expressed his deepest concern about developments in Ukraine.
The conversation lasted about half an hour and the pontiff called for an immediate end to Russian bombing in Ukraine.
According to the AP, today, Friday, Pope Francis cancelled all his other meetings, except for the one with Greece's new ambassador to the Vatican, Catherine Katia Georgiou, who handed him her credentials.
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