Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, Archbishop of Bologna and President of the Italian Episcopal Conference, will be in Kiev today and tomorrow as an envoy of Pope Francis: the press office of the Holy See announced it. “It is”, the communication re-launched by the Religious Information Service (SIR) refers to “an initiative whose main objective is to listen in depth to the Ukrainian authorities on possible ways to achieve a just peace and to support humane gestures that help alleviate the tensions”.
Cardinal Zuppi’s visit to Kiev “is a visit of great hope for our people. The Cardinal is very close to our community, he knows our pain firsthand. We hope that his visit will prepare the negotiations for a return to peace, a peace,” Father Teodosio Roman Hren, vicar general of the Apostolic Exarchate for faithful Ukrainian Catholics of the Byzantine Rite residing in Italy, told LaPresse.
“The Ukrainian people – he adds – are the people who want peace and who expect the success of all the initiatives of the Holy See. But it must be a just peace. Even Cardinal Zuppi, when meeting the Ukrainian community in Bologna, he underlined that peace and justice go hand in hand. The Ukrainian people want a just peace. Today it is not enough just for the arms to cease, it is necessary for Ukraine to be able to reconquer the occupied lands”.
Source: IL Tempo
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