Pope Francis shows a flag that was brought to him from Bucha, Ukraine, during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, April 6, 2022.

Ukrainian officials have criticized Pope Francis’ recent address to Russian youth, calling his remarks “imperialist propaganda.”. The pontiff made a video address to the 10th All-Russian ...

Pope Francis is drawing the ire of Ukraine and some of its supporters with recently revealed comments that appear to suggest Kyiv should surrender in its two-year war with Russia as the Vatican ...

Pope Francis, speaking about Ukraine, used a very beautiful expression: ‘Your tears are my tears, your pain is my pain,’” Cardinal Zuppi said during the meeting with Ukrainian officials in ...

Pope Francis was asked in an interview whether what Vladimir Putin is doing in Ukraine could be considered genocide. While the pope responded that genocide is a technical term that requires study ...

(RNS) — Keeping channels for dialogue open with the Kremlin, Pope Francis has bucked the Western world's refusal to take a mediated approach to ending the Ukraine war.

Afterward, Ukraine’s foreign minister summoned the Vatican’s ambassador to Ukraine to express “profound disappointment” in Francis’s words. It was after that meeting that the Pope ...

Pope Francis met Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Vatican on Friday, the latest step on the Ukrainian president’s European tour to win support for his proposed “victory plan” aimed at ending the ...

Pope Francis has said that the war in Ukraine “was perhaps in some way either provoked or not prevented” in remarks published by Italian newspaper La Stampa on Tuesday.

Pope Francis has called for Ukraine to have the “courage of the white flag” while negotiating peace with Russia, according to an interview partially released Saturday, ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on May 13, 2023. Abaca/Sipa USA. The Holy See, the government of the Catholic Church, said in a statement that the Pope ...