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‘Choose Peace’: Pope Marks First Easter Under Cloud of Mideast War
He urged peace and avoided naming specific countries as security restrictions, cancelled Masses and deserted holy sites marked the holiday.
- Pope Leo XIV presided over the Easter vigil at the Vatican on Saturday as part of Holy Week celebrations, addressing a world he described as "ravaged by wars" marked by hatred and indifference.
- In Jerusalem, the Old City remained deserted due to Israel's conflict in Gaza and the broader Middle East war, with Israeli authorities severely restricting access to the Holy Sepulchre for security reasons.
- Catholic authorities in Damascus restricted Easter Mass following an attack on a Christian town, while Dubai cancelled masses and Christian areas in Lebanon face crossfire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah.
- Pope Leo XIV urged President Donald Trump to find an "off-ramp" from the Middle East conflict this week, continuing his repeated calls for peace amid the regional violence.
- Breaking with tradition, Leo did not specifically name any country in crisis during his message, instead paying tribute to his predecessor Pope Francis, who died last Easter Sunday.
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Pope Leo XIV donated the blessing "Urbi et orbi", "the city and the world." In front of about 40,000 people in St. Peter's Square in Rome, the Pontiff called for worldwide peace in his Easter address. Whoever holds weapons in his hand, lay them down, demanded the head of the Catholic Church.
Vatican City, Holy See. Pope Leo XIV called this Sunday to “choose peace” and denounced the “indifference” to wars, in his first Easter message, marked by the conflict in the Middle East. From East Timor to Spain, through Jerusalem and Lebanon, Catholics around the world celebrate this feast that commemorates Christ’s resurrection, tarnished by the war unleashed by the attacks on Iran from Israel and the United States and its regional repercussi…
Leo XIV has officiated the first Mass of the Resurrection of his pontificate and has launched a call to peace in the blessing Urbi et Orbi of Easter Sunday and has denounced the "globalization of indifference" to the death of "thousands of people" in armed conflicts, urging that "those who have weapons in their hands abandon them".The Pontiff, who has spoken from the lodge of St Peter's Basilica before 50,000 faithful, according to Vatican News,…
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Easter in the Vatican. Father João Basto, in an analysis of Urbi et Orbi, highlights the theological message that Pontific applied to the concrete life of people and the current political situation.
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