Ukraine

In focus: Texas execution, war in Ukraine and Ethiopia, upcoming papal trip

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With “rivers of blood and tears” still flowing in Ukraine and with the increasing threat of the use of nuclear weapons, Pope Francis begged Russian President Vladimir Putin: “Stop this spiral of violence and death.”

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A former deputy secretary-general of NATO said threats from Russian President Vladimir Putin to use nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine must be taken seriously.

“For the first time in my life, I didn’t know where to run because it’s not enough to run. You have to know where to go,” Cardinal Konrad Krajewski said in an interview with Vatican News published Sept. 17.

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