Addressing pilgrims at the end of Wednesday’s general audience, the pontiff lamented that “the Church is brokenhearted at the ...

Arabic. French. Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas has mourned the passing of Pope Francis, voicing thanks for his condemnation of the suffering in the Gaza Strip, which has been devastated ...

Pope Leo XIV called on world leaders to reject the temptation to use “powerful and sophisticated weapons,” as President ...

More: Pope Francis, a humble reformer who favored 'the ... The pope also called on Palestinian militant group Hamas to release its remaining hostages and condemned what he said was a "worrisome ...

His lunch with inmates at one of our prisons. Perhaps my most vivid memory of Pope Francis was how he acted after Hamas’ attack on Israelis and Israel’s retaliation on the Palestinians.

a charge Hamas denies. Francis, who died on April 21, had been ramping up criticism of Israel's military campaign in Gaza in the months before his death. Leo, who celebrates three weeks as pope on ...

The Trump administration’s direct talks with Hamas in Qatar since then have ... were killed by Israel’s airstrikes on May 26. Pope Francis repeatedly called for a ceasefire in Gaza ...

Appealing directly to world leaders, Pope Leo echoed his predecessor, Pope Francis, who had so often declared, “War is always ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV made his first appointment of a Chinese bishop under the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with ...

Pope Leo appealed on Wednesday for a ceasefire in Gaza and called on Israel and Hamas militants to completely respect international humanitarian law.