Pope Seeks Moscow Meeting With Putin, Kremlin Mum

Reuters reports:

Pope Francis said in an interview published on Tuesday that he asked for a meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin to try to stop the war in Ukraine but had not received a reply.

The pope also told Italy’s Corriere Della Sera newspaper that Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church, who has given the war his full-throated backing, “cannot become Putin’s altar boy”.

Francis, who made an unprecedented visit to the Russian embassy when the war started, told the newspaper that about three weeks into the conflict, he asked the Vatican’s top diplomat to send a message to Putin.

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Pope Francis says that he let Russian President Vladimir Putin know that he is ready to go to Moscow to make his case for peace. https://t.co/rFo0DXMhjh

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