Rome – Two prominent Catholics, Pope Liu XIV And US Vice President JD Vance met Monday before a wave of US -led diplomatic efforts to make a ceasefire in Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The Vannes procession, which enters the Vatican city after 7:30 am Open Pontificate From the first American Pope.
Luke Schroeder, a spokesman for Vans, said he joins Vans in the Vatican, a Catholic spokesman, a spokesman for Vans.
The Vatican listed the Vannes delegation as the first among the many private masses that Liu was on Monday with people who came to Rome because of his opening grandmothers, including other Christian leaders and a group of believers from his old diocese in Chicio, Peru.
The Vatican, which was largely marginalized during the first three years of the Russian war, It was offered to host any peace talks With the continued humanitarian efforts to facilitate the bodies of prisoners and to reunite the Ukrainian children seized by Russia.
After a briefly greeting Liu at the end of Sunday’s Mass, Vans spent the rest of the day in separate meetings with Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinsky and Chairman of the European Union Committee, Ursula von der Lin.
Liu, the former Cardinal Robert Brevost, is a Augustine missionary born in Chicago, who spent the largest part of his ministry in Czechle, a commercial city of about 800,000 on the Peruvian coast in the northern Pacific.
In the days after his election on May 8, Leo pledged “Every effort” To help bring peace to Ukraine. He also stressed his continuity with Pope Francis, who made interest in immigrants and the poor a priority from Pontvie.
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Vans was one The last foreign officials To meet Francis before the death of the Argentine Pope on April 21. The two were intertwined on immigration, with Francis Public reprimand The Trump administration deportation plan and correct the theological justification for it.
Later on Monday, the US President Donald Trump Separate phone calls were planned with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodimir, as well as calls to NATO leaders.
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