Papal envoy to visit Washington to talk Ukraine peace

FILE PHOTO: Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, Pope Francis' envoy and President of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI), leads a mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Moscow, Russia June 29, 2023. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, tasked by Pope Francis to help bring peace to Ukraine, was heading to Washington on Monday to meet U.S. officials as a follow up to his talks in Kyiv and Moscow, the Vatican said.

A statement said he would be there for three days but did not say who he would be meeting.