Klobuchar and Pope Discuss Legislation to Rescue Kidnapped Ukrainian Children

Klobuchar and Pope discuss legislation to rescue kidnapped Ukrainian children

Senator Amy Klobuchar met with Pope Leo XIV and a Ukrainian delegation on Friday to discuss efforts to return children abducted during the war.Klobuchar says an estimated 19,000 children have been kidnapped by Russian forces since the invasion. So far, only about 1,835 have been returned. Klobuchar met with four of those children alongside the […]

Minnesota State Senator meets with Pope Leo XIV to discuss finding abducted Ukrainian children

Minnesota (KVRR) — Minnesota State Senator Amy Klobuchar was invited to join a Ukrainian delegation to meet with the Pope. The delegation discussed, with the Pope, current negotiations to return the over 19,000 Ukrainian children who have been abducted. This move comes after Klobuchar and Senator Chuck Grassley led the Abducted Ukrainian Children Recovery and Accountability Act, which passed the...

Pope meets young people returned to Ukraine from Russia

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Thanks to a handful of countries, including the Vatican, some 1,600 Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia have been reunited with family members in Ukraine. Four of the young people met Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican Nov. 21 to express their thanks and to ask for a more formal, systematic effort to facilitate the return of at least 19,000 Ukrainian children believed to be in Russia. The young people were accompanied by fa…

Ukraine delegation meets Pope Leo to discuss children held in Russia

Ukraine hopes to capitalize on Pope Leo’s calls for peace to coax the Vatican into helping secure the release of children and other prisoners held by Russia.

Pope meets young people returned to Ukraine from Russia - Biweekly Newspaper for the Diocese of Richmond %

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Thanks to a handful of countries, including the Vatican, some 1,600 Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia have been reunited with family members in Ukraine. Four of the young people met Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican Nov. 21 to express their thanks and to ask for a more formal, systematic effort to facilitate the return of at least 19,000 Ukrainian children believed to be in Russia. The young people were accompanied by fa…