ROME (AP) — Pope Francis' Ukraine peace envoy, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, is heading to China on the fourth leg of a mission that has already brought him to Kyiv, Moscow and Washington, the Vatican said Tuesday. The main aim of the shuttle diplomacy is to help return Ukrainian children taken to Russia after the invasion. Zuppi, accompanied by an official from the Vatican secretariat of state, will be in Beijing from Wednesday to Friday. The Vatican described the visit as a 'further step in the mission desired by the pope to support humanitarian initiatives and the search for paths that can bring about a just peace.

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