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Ukraine conflict: Pope's peace prayer for Ukraine recalls Fatima prophecy
Firstpost | 26/03/2022 12:15 PM | Click to read full article
Pope Francis prayed for peace in Ukraine in a ceremony on 25 March 2022 that harked back to a century-old apocalyptic prophecy about peace and Russia sparked by purported visions of the Virgin Mary to three peasant children in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917.
He solemnly asked forgiveness that humanity had "forgotten the lessons learned from the tragedies of the last century, the sacrifice of the millions who fell in two World Wars."
