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Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai, Maronite patriarch, center, and other bishops attending the "Mediterranean for Peace" meeting participate in prayers for peace and against war at the Church of Santa Maria Novella Feb. 24 in Florence, Italy. The shock of invasion in Ukraine led bishops meeting in Florence to suspend their work early and to spend half an hour in silent prayer under Giotto's 13th-century crucifix. (CNS/Italian bishops' conference/Cristian Gennari)
Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai, Maronite patriarch, center, and other bishops attending the "Mediterranean for Peace" meeting participate in prayers for peace and against war at the Church of Santa Maria Novella Feb. 24 in Florence, Italy. (CNS)