PERUGIA (ITALPRESS) – The Corriere dell’Umbria and other Corriere Group newspapers are publishing today at the top of their front pages, with the headline “Peace, the forgotten word,” the letter sent by Pope Francis to the Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine, Visvaldas Kulbokas, for the thousand days since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, reported yesterday by L’Osservatore Romano.”We publish this letter from Pope Francis,” the introduction reads, “not to express a stance in favor of one of the other sides involved in the conflict,” but “to keep attention high on a tragedy that, for too long now, has been unfolding and that, in recent hours, registered such an aggravation that dramatic scenarios are in prospect. “Pope Francis,” the Corriere continues, “chose the name of the saint of Assisi, because he is a man of peace as well as a man of poverty. It is the same reason why, at this time, the Corriere dell’Umbria cannot fail to bring to the attention of its readers words and values, anticipated eight centuries ago, by the world’s most famous Umbrian. “Never as now,” the introduction emphasizes, “is the urgent need for peace of paths of dialogue felt, and it is no longer just a question of who is right or wrong. “We are poised,” the Corriere dell’Umbria concludes, “above the point of no return.
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