He will do so on the eve of a three-day trip to Hungary, Budapest, where he will face Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The Supreme Pontiff will try to officiate as a mediator in the war with Ukraine.
In an attempt to act as a go-between, the Pope Francisco will meet this Thursday with the Prime Minister of UkraineDenys Shmyhal, and then he will speak with Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary and one of Vladimir Putin’s main allies in Europe.
On several occasions, the Supreme Pontiff insisted with a call for peace in Ukraine: “Help the beloved Ukrainian people – Francis prayed in Urbi et Orbi – on his way to peace, and illuminate the Russian people with the paschal light. He comforts the wounded and those who lost their families because of the war and make sure that the prisoners can return safely to their families.”
The ex-archbishop of Buenos Aires spoke yesterday, after the midday Marian prayer, of “a trip to the center of europeover which the icy winds of war continue to blow.”
“Using weapons to resolve conflicts is a sign of weakness and fragility. Negotiate, proceeding to mediation and initiating conciliation requires courage”, he recalled this Tuesday, in addition, through the @Pontifex_es account through Twitter.
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Pope Francisco
On the eve of a three-day trip to Hungary, the Pope, who spoke twice by phone with Vladimir Zelensky, will meet for the first time with a Ukrainian officialwhile he never managed to communicate with Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia.
The European trip of Pope Francis
The pontiff announced his official trip to Hungary, in what will be his closest approach to the war zone between Russia and Ukraine: “ Next Friday I will go to Budapest for three days, in Hungaryto complete the trip made in 2021 to the International Eucharistic Congress”.
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“It will also be a trip to the center of Europe, over which the icy winds of war continue to blow while the displacement of so many people puts urgent humanitarian issues on the agenda“he added. In this way, the Argentine pope will complete his 41st trip since he took office.
Source: Ambito
