Pope Francis opened Holy Week Sunday with a call for an Easter truce in Ukraine to make room for a negotiated peace, highlighting the need for leaders to “make some sacrifices for the good of the people.”
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Pope Francis opened Holy Week Sunday with a call for an Easter truce in Ukraine to make room for a negotiated peace, highlighting the need for leaders to “make some sacrifices for the good of the people.”
Pope Francis has opened Holy Week with a call for an Easter truce in Ukraine to make room for a negotiated peace. He said leaders need to "make some sacrifices for the good of the people."
On Palm Sunday, Pope Francis made an appeal to ”lay down the arms in Ukraine” and asked, “What kind of a victory would it be to plant a flag on a heap of ruins?”
