Surprise blitz, then writes in Russian on Twitter: “War is a surrender”
VATICAN CITY. Bergoglio breaks the protocol and makes an unprecedented diplomatic gesture. If necessary, in fact, the prelate foreign minister goes to the ambassador. Not even the Secretary of State moves in these cases. Instead, yesterday the Pope himself went to the Russian representative to the Holy See, with the intention of sending an indirect message, but loud and clear, to Vladimir Putin: stop bombs and missiles.
Francis knocked on the Russian door with the hope of helping to revive the fortunes of those involved in the war in Ukraine and avoid the humanitarian catastrophe. From his entourage it transpires that the Pontiff is following the conflict in the Eastern European country with particular attention, and has moved in this unprecedented way after having seen the images of the frightened population. So, before noon, on board a white Fiat 500L he reached via della Conciliazione 10, the entrance of the Moscow representative to the Vatican, led by Ambassador Alexander Avdeev. The visit lasted almost 40 minutes. The Bishop of Rome “wanted to express his concern for the war,” reported the Media d’Oltretevere.
Bergoglio communicated his apprehension about the tragedies in Kiev and asked to protect the people, Avdeev revealed to the Ria Novosti agency: the Pope is troubled “by the situation of the entire population, both in the Donbass (he was not aware ) than in other areas, and urged to take care of children, the sick and the suffering. According to him this is the main Christian objective ”. Moreover, the ambassador denied that the Pontiff had “offered his mediation for peace”.
The Pope yesterday also phoned the major archbishop of Kiev Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, assuring him that “I will do everything I can”.
In the evening he then spread a tweet in Russian on his @Pontifex account, a message that takes up the encyclical «Brothers all»: «Every war leaves the world worse than it found it. War is a failure of politics and humanity, a shameful surrender, a defeat in the face of the forces of evil ».
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