May
18, Volodymyr Zelensky met with the new Holy Father, Pope Leo.
“For
many nations, the image of a mother and child is a symbol of life that must be
protected. Today, we presented Pope Leo XIV with a special icon – the Holy
Mother with the Infant - painted on a fragment of a crate used to store heavy
artillery munitions, brought from near Izyum. This icon speaks of our children.
Of those who have suffered from the war, who were deliberately abducted and
deported by Russia, and who are very much awaited at home – in Ukraine. We pray
for the lives of all our deported children and hope for the Vatican’s support
in this matter, so that all of them, both the children and Ukrainian prisoners,
can return home.”
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