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Pope Prays for Yemen and Jordan Peace
Pope Leo XIV urges end to Yemen hostilities and prays for Jordan attack victims.
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Pope Leo XIV urges end to Yemen hostilities and prays for Jordan attack victims. Pope Leo XIV called for an end to fighting in Yemen and prayed for victims of a Jordan church attack. Originally reported by Vaticannews.
Pope Leo XIV appeals for Yemen peace
Pope Leo XIV called for an end to hostilities in Yemen and prayed for victims of a terrorist attack in Jordan.
“I make a heartfelt appeal for hostilities to cease and for the Yemeni people and all the peoples of the region to be guaranteed a life of peace”
Jordan church attack victims
Nine people were killed and forty wounded in a terrorist attack at St George's Orthodox Church in Jordan.
“I am close to that community and to the entire country, which stands out for its peaceful coexistence and respect among different religions”
Assisi peace gathering
Forty years since the 1986 Assisi meeting, Pope Leo urges prayer for peace ahead of the gathering.
“Never before has it been so evident that wars, besides sowing death and destruction, impoverish and damage the world”
The one thing
Pope Leo XIV called for an end to fighting in Yemen and prayed for victims of a Jordan church attack.
