Back from Malta, the Sovereign Pontiff explained on Sunday that it could respond favorably to the invitation launched by the Mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Vitali Klitschko, and seconded by the President, Volodyymyr Zelensky.
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The war in Ukraine projected his shadow on the two-day visit that Pope Francis made to Malta on Saturday 2 and Sunday, April 3, and whose initial dominant was the fate of some migrants from Africa and Asia who knock on the door of Europe after crossing the Mediterranean. Visibly hampered by acute knee pain and a throbbing hip, slowly slowed and clauding, forced to sit in his papamobile and access the plane by elevator, the head of the Catholic Church composed with this news .
Sunday, on the aircraft, François said he was “willing to do all that is possible” in favor of peace. He confirmed that he did not exclude to kyiv, as he pointed out the day before, even if he seemed to wonder about the feasibility of this option. “I am available. I said it’s on the table,” he said at a press conference, before adding: “It’s one of the possibilities. But I do not know if it will be possible, if it will be profitable, or if it should be done. All this is in the air. “The Mayor of kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, sent him an invitation to go to the besieged capital , invitation supported by the President, Volodymyr Zelensky.
The head of the Catholic Church seemed more dubious on the other hypothesis mentioned, in particular, by President Polish, Andrzej Duda, whom he had received Friday at the Vatican. It would be to go to Poland, at the Ukrainian border, where many refugees arrive since the beginning of the Russian invasion, February 24th.
On the other hand, he confirmed that the Vatican still worked on the hypothesis of a new meeting with the Kirill Patriarch; The head of the Russian Orthodox Church supported the invasion of Ukraine by Moscow, seeing in this military offensive a “metaphysical” dimension operation delivered against “the forces of evil”. “We work on it,” said the pope, according to whom such an encounter could stand “in the Middle East”. A head-to-head had taken place between the two religious leaders in 2016, the first in history.
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The conflict marked his footprint all the papal visit to Malta. Sunday, at the Angelus, at Valletta, François denounced a “sacrilegious war” in a “martyred” Ukraine. At the entrance of the Jean-XXIII peace laboratory, a welcoming and accompanying migrants who arrived for most of Africa, located in Halw Far, on the south shore of the island, where he went, a Fifty Ukrainians were waiting for him in awareness: “Close the Ukrainian sky”, “Protect our children”.
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