By Courtney Mares | Vatican City, Feb 22, 2022 / 05:05 am Photo by Michael Alexander…
February 25, 2022 | The Washington Post
Pope makes personal appeal in remarkable Russia embassy trip
By Nicole Winfield | AP | from The Washington Post
ROME — Pope Francis visited the Russian Embassy on Friday to personally “express his concern about the war” in Ukraine, in an extraordinary, hands-on papal gesture that has no recent precedent.
Usually, popes receive ambassadors and heads of state in the Vatican, and diplomatic protocol would have called for the Vatican foreign minister to summon the Russian ambassador.
