Pope Urges for Immediate Ceasefire, Condemns US-Israeli War on Iran
Speaking during his weekly Angelus prayer at St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican, the Chicago-born pontiff condemned two weeks of “horrific violence” affecting civilians in the Middle East.
“I renew my prayerful closeness to all who have lost loved ones in the attacks, which have struck schools, hospitals and residential areas,” Leo said.
On the first day of the campaign, a suspected US Tomahawk missile destroyed the Shajarah Tayyebeh girls’ school, killing at least 175 people, most of them children, in one of the conflict’s deadliest incidents.
The pontiff urged all parties to halt hostilities and reopen “paths of dialogue,” expressing additional concern over recent developments in Lebanon.
Israel has carried out airstrikes in Lebanon in response to Hezbollah rocket attacks, which were themselves in retaliation for the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli strikes.
“Violence can never lead to justice, stability and peace for which the peoples are waiting,” Pope Leo warned. During a later visit to a parish in Rome, he also denounced the notion that conflicts could be resolved through warfare as “absurd.”
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