Vatican foreign minister, in Moscow, says Ukraine war must end

A senior Vatican official urged an end to the Ukraine war after meeting in Moscow on Tuesday with Russian Foreign Minister ​Sergey Lavrov in the first in-person talks between ​Vatican and Russian offi...

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Pope Leo urges US to welcome immigrants in July 4 appeal from Lampedusa

Pope Leo marked the 250th anniversary of U.S. ​independence on Saturday with an appeal to Americans to welcome and protect immigrants, in a letter sent to his home country as he visited ‌Italy's migra...

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Pope Leo praises US history of welcoming immigrants at 250th anniversary

Pope Leo ​praised the United States' history of welcoming ‌immigrants in his first major address to his home country on Friday, urging in a video ​appearance that Americans live up to the ​ideals put ...

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Excommunications show a Pope Leo unafraid of making firm decisions

Pope Leo said during his inaugural Mass last year that he would seek to unify the Catholic Church after years of ​fraught divisions and vowed he would not rule like an autocrat over its 1.4 billion me...

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Vatican rejects proposal to allow sermons by Catholic women

The Vatican on Tuesday reaffirmed a long-standing rule that only an ordained priest or ​deacon can give a sermon at a Catholic mass, ‌rejecting a request from German bishops to broaden the practice an...

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Pope Leo decries leaders who 'feed' wars while millions go hungry

World leaders are "feeding" wars instead of the hungry, Pope Leo ‌said on Monday, telling the U.N. food aid agency that global priorities were badly skewed.

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Pope Leo says 'thanks be to God' for interim US-Iran peace deal

Pope Leo on Tuesday praised the interim ​deal between the United States ‌and Iran to end the regional war in the Middle East, saying "thanks ​be to God" that ​the two powers are set to ⁠formalize thei...

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Pope borrows King of Spain's jet to return to Vatican after technical issue

Pope Leo boarded a Falcon jet offered by ​the King of Spain after a technical issue ‌grounded the larger papal plane on the island of Tenerife, delaying his return to the Vatican on Friday at ​the end...

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Pope Leo warns Europe’s migrant traffickers to repent or face hell

Pope Leo on Friday issued a stern warning to human traffickers and criminal groups who exploit desperate migrants ​trying to reach Europe through Spain's Canary Islands, telling them to "repent" befor...

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Pope Leo says history will condemn leaders who ignore migrant deaths

Pope Leo appealed to world leaders ​on Thursday to treat migrants more humanely, warning in a visit to Spain's Canary Islands, one of Europe's migration hotspots, that history would condemn those ‌who...

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Pope Leo puts focus on prisoners in first papal visit to a Spanish jail

Pope Leo, who has forcefully advocated for the rights of prisoners, visited one of Spain's largest prisons on Wednesday, urging the ​inmates to make amends for their crimes and commit to living ‌bette...

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Bad Bunny meets Pope Leo in Madrid, but should have taken more photos

Pope Leo had a brief private meeting with Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny at Madrid's ​Bernabeu stadium on Monday evening as both were ‌touring Spain, the Vatican said on Tuesday, adding that it did not...

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Pope’s visit to Canary Islands puts focus on treatment of migrants

Pope Leo's visit to Spain's Canary Islands, which have struggled to absorb a surge in irregular migration ​over the past decade, will focus attention on the treatment of migrants, local Catholic leade...

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Pope Leo heads to Barcelona on Spain tour focused on war and migration

Pope Leo set off on Tuesday for the ‌second stop of his visit to Spain, flying from Madrid to Barcelona as part of a week-long tour in which he has warned that escalating conflicts have pushed the wor...

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Pope Leo tells Spain's Church to listen to abuse survivors, offer reparations

Pope ​Leo told Spain's Catholic bishops on Monday they ‌must listen to survivors of abuse by clergy and offer them reparations, in the first direct reference during his trip to ​scandals that have sha...

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Pope Leo warns Spain's parliament the world is in 'profound' crisis

Pope Leo told Spain's parliament that escalating conflict, deepening polarization and widespread disregard for human ​rights had pushed the world into a profound crisis, in one of his most expansive p...

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Pope Leo tells 1.2 million crowd in Madrid that God stands with the poor

Over a million people filled the streets near one of ​Madrid's main squares on Sunday to join Pope Leo for an outdoor Mass, ‌likely to be the largest event of his week-long visit to Spain, where the p...

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US get World Cup prayer as Pope Leo roots for the home team

Pope Leo may have traded his life in Chicago for the ornate ​apartments at the Vatican's apostolic palace, but he ‌still plans to root for his old national team at the World Cup this month.

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Pope, in Spain, says world crying for peace, urges leaders to temper divisions

Pope Leo on Saturday urged global leaders to avoid dividing their ​electorates with "sterile simplifications" to gain popularity and called on them to listen to the world's cries for peace, in a force...

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Pope Leo to meet Catholic abuse survivors on Spain trip, Vatican says

Pope Leo will meet with survivors ​of sexual abuse by Catholic ‌clergy during his week-long visit to Spain, the Vatican said ​on Friday.

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Pope Leo heads to Spain to stand 'shoulder to shoulder' with migrants

Pope Leo heads to Spain on Saturday for a week-long tour, his first visit to an EU country outside Italy, which will ​culminate with the pontiff meeting migrants in the Canary Islands who braved dangerous Atlantic waters to enter Europe.

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Pope Leo heads to Spain to stand 'shoulder to shoulder' with migrants

Pope Leo heads to Spain on Saturday for a week-long tour, his first visit to an EU country outside Italy, which will ​culminate with the pontiff meeting migrants in the Canary Islands who braved dange...

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Pope Leo names EWTN executive as first woman to lead Vatican communications

Pope Leo named an executive with U.S. Catholic media conglomerate EWTN ​as the new head of the ‌Vatican's communications department on Tuesday, in the first appointment of a woman to the senior Church...

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Spurning just war, Pope Leo ends Catholic 'permission slip' for conflicts

Pope Leo this week repudiated a major teaching used by the Catholic Church since at ​least the fifth century to evaluate when countries might be justified in waging wars, in a move experts said could ...

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Pope Leo decries 'sharp intensification' of war in Ukraine

Pope Leo on Wednesday ​decried what he called ‌a "sharp intensification" of the war in Ukraine, telling ​pilgrims at his weekly ​audience at the Vatican ⁠that he wanted ​to express closeness to civili...

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With AI manifesto, Leo joins pantheon of popes who urged world to change

Catholic popes have been urging global leaders to address social justice issues for 135 ​years across some two dozen major documents that many of the world's 1.4-billion-faithful can cite by their two...

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Quotes from Pope Leo's document warning world of AI risks

Pope Leo issued his first major document on Monday, urging international regulation to slow down the development of AI systems, which he said spread misinformation and may lead the world down a path of unending war.

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Pope Leo urges world to 'slow down' on AI in fervent first manifesto

Pope Leo urged governments to slow down the development of AI systems in his first major document, released on Monday, warning that they spread misinformation, prioritise conflict and ​risk leading the world down a path of unending war.

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Pope Leo urges world to 'slow down' on AI in fervent first manifesto

Pope Leo urged governments to slow down the development of AI systems in his first major document, released on Monday, warning that they spread misinformation, prioritise conflict and ​risk leading th...

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Pope Leo decries 'dizzying' profits earned by companies that pollute

Pope Leo on Saturday called out companies who seek "dizzying" profits at the ‌cost of environmental pollution, on a visit to an area in Italy known as a hotbed for illegal dumping of toxic waste.

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