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

Finally, he also recalled the words of Pope Pius XII, who reiterated that 'nothing is lost in peace. Everything may be lost ...

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.

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

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

As Israel continued its airstrikes in Iran, and Iran launched drones, Pope Leo welcomed Lebanese President Joseph Aoun to the Vatican.

Israel’s ambassador to the Holy See has defended the country’s new military offensive in Iran as a service to peace and security, and said the pope can be an “influential” moral voice in advocating ...

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 ...