The Polish Cardinal Konrad Krajewski He has emerged unscathed from a shooting in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia. He traveled there last week on behalf of the Pope to help the population, on his fourth trip to the country. The person in charge sent by the Vatican has held the position of pontifical almoner since August 3, 2013.
The Cardinal is the one in charge in the Vatican of helping the poor, who has been seen involved in a shootout when he was distributing food and essential goods in the town of Zaporizhiawhere he has been for several days on a new humanitarian mission commissioned by Pope Francis.
The cardinal sent by the Pope to Ukraine was delivering packages with food in Zaporizhiawhen they started shooting at the group I was in and they had to get to safety.
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“For the first time in my life, I didn’t know where to run… because it is not enough to run, you have to know where,” Krajewski recounted after the altercation in statements to Vatican News. The Polish cardinal, in charge of carrying out charitable works on behalf of the pontiff, is traveling through Ukraine in a minibus accompanied by two other bishops, one Catholic and one Protestant, and also by a soldier.
The Vatican, which has not reported who the perpetrators of the attack were, has stated that the group is fine and that the delivery of aid continued until the end, including the rosaries blessed by the pope. “Whoever received them immediately hung them around his neck,” added the person in charge of the Vatican’s humanitarian actions.
For the cardinal it was a special date, since it was the 9 years after his appointment as beggar and bishopbut has confessed that what is being experienced in Ukraine “has no mercy” and “there are no more tears or words”.
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The cardinal had already been to Ukraine three other times since the war began to also bring two ambulances from Francisco and the last one was in April to celebrate the rites of Holy Week for the country’s Catholics and pray in the city of Bucha, where hundreds of bodies of tortured and executed people appeared after the withdrawal of the Russian army.
Francisco has shown on various occasions your intention to travel to Ukraine. However, in a recent interview he assured that the doctor had advised him against traveling to kyiv or Moscow, at least until he made the trip he planned to Kazakhstan.
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