I, too, turn to the world’s leaders with an ever timely appeal: never again war!” the pontiff told the crowd in his first Sunday address in Vatican City.

On top of the weighty tasks assumed by Pope Leo XIV upon his election as pontiff, the Middle East's most senior churchmen have assigned him another: to help bring peace to the region. Clerics from the Eastern Church are urging the new pope to build bridges between not only worshippers in the Middle East,

Pope Leo XIV stepped out onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to thunderous applause and an electric atmosphere, to deliver his first Sunday blessing and an address calling for peace in Ukraine and Gaza.

Pope Francis, long an advocate for human rights and peace in the Middle East, died on Monday at 88 after a bout of ... Since October 2023, the pope held near-daily calls with Reverend Gabriel Romanelli, the priest of the only Catholic church in Gaza.

Pope Leo XIV has called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza with the release of hostages and delivery of humanitarian aid.

In the midst of the Easter season — a time Francis long proclaimed as a message of hope — churches across the Middle East are bidding ... given his repeated calls for peace and an end to ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV vowed to take “every effort” Wednesday to work for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine and to actively promote the spirituality and traditions of the eastern rite churches, those Catholic communities with origins in the Mideast and eastern Europe that have been decimated by years of conflict and persecution.