Posted on 06/05/2015 5:02:40 AM PDT by marshmallow
Ukranian Catholics hope he will raise the war in their homeland
Pope Francis will meet Russian president Vladimir Putin next Wednesday at a time when the war in eastern Ukraine is intensifying.
The visit, confirmed by papal spokesman, Jesuit Fr Federico Lombardi, will be the pontiff’s second meeting with the Russia leader, the first having taking place in November 2013.
Since then, however, war has broken out in eastern Ukraine over the disputed Donbass region, with Russian forces widely suspected of assisting in aiding rebel forces in the neighbouring country. Russia has also annexed the Ukrainian province of Crimea, with allegations of intimidation and violence against its small Catholic minority.
The Holy Father has appealed numerous times for peace in the country, where the deathtoll since January last year has now surpassed 6,500, with over 1,100,000 Ukrainians internally displaced and three-quarters of a million exiled.
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Well that should prove interesting.
I don’t think anything of significance will happen. Pope Francis is a communist and he will flock behind Putin like the rest of them.
The Bourgeois by Christopher Hibbert is free on kindle...such an eye opener for anyone wanting truth.
Maybe the Pope can get him to stop persecuting non-Orthodox Christians in Putinstan.
The Ukrainian Greek Catholics will be watching with interest.
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