The Vatican has a deep history of conflict mediation, with varying degrees of success. An effort by the pope to end the war ...

Pope Leo XIV and U.S. Vice President JD Vance are meeting ahead of a flurry of U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to make progress ...

The Pope is the only one capable of protecting these people,’ Ukraine’s top Catholic leader tells Leo XIV in personal Vatican ...

Pope Leo XIV is calling for humanitarian aid to enter Gaza amid an Israeli blockade and also urging for peace in Ukraine and ...

Pope Leo XIV held his inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, May 18, 2025, drawing world leaders to Rome for the ...

Pope Leo's messages and interactions – with a clear emphasis on both peace and justice, as well as dialogue – have already ...

Pope Leo XIV is calling for humanitarian aid to enter Gaza amid an Israeli blockade and also urging for peace in Ukraine and Russia — even offering to host negotiations at the Vatican.

Italian officials have confirmed that Pope Leo XIV is willing to host peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. The move would follow a long tradition of papal peacemaking diplomacy. Former Vatican ...

Pope Leo XIV has met with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss ending the war in Ukraine. Zelenskyy also met with US Vice President JD Vance ahead of talks between Donald Trump and ...

saying Ukraine was being “martyred” and lamenting that Palestinians were being “reduced to starvation”. Leo XIV, the first American pope, voted in past Republican primaries but is not ...

Ukraine, he said, “awaits negotiations for a fair and lasting peace.” Pope Leo XIV at the end of Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday.Credit...Gregorio Borgia/Associated Press Leo XIV on ...