Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, who was tasked by Pope Francis with a peacekeeping mission to try to help end the war in Ukraine, will visit Kyiv on Monday and Tuesday, a Vatican statement cited by Reuters said.
“This is an initiative whose main goal is to listen deeply to the Ukrainian authorities regarding possible ways to achieve a just peace and to support humanitarian gestures that can help reduce tensions,” the message reads.
Since the start of the war in February 2022, Pope Francis and the Vatican have tried to offer themselves as possible peace brokers, but so far their efforts have been unsuccessful.
Zuppi is a member of the Community of Sant’ Egidio, a Rome-based peace and justice group that in 1992 brokered an agreement that ended a civil war in Mozambique that left an estimated one million dead and an estimated four million were moved.
The Pope made him a cardinal in 2019, and last year he was elected head of the Italian Episcopal Conference.
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