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Vatican: Italian cardinal entrusted with Ukraine peace mission

Pope Francis has asked Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna to lead a mission “to help ease tensions in the conflict in Ukraine,” Matteo Bruni of the Vatican press office has announced. By referring to Cardinal Zuppi’s task as a “mission,” Bruni appeared to affirm it is the same peace mission Pope Francis was referring to April 30. [1]