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Rome Newsroom, Apr 15, 2022 / 14:38 pm. The Vatican adapted Pope Francis’ Way of the Cross on Good Friday after an outcry in Ukraine over a Station involving Ukrainian and Russian families.

Ukrainian nurse Iryna and Russian nursing student Albina, who are friends, hold a cross at the 13th station as Pope Francis leads the Way of the Cross outside the Colosseum in Rome April 15, 2022.

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican adapted Pope Francis’ Way of the Cross on Good Friday after an outcry in Ukraine over a Station involving Ukrainian and Russian families.

A life jacket molded onto the transparent cross, Pope Francis said, was found in the central Mediterranean Sea on July 3, 2019, and belonged to an unknown migrant who died at sea.