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Pope Leo XIV appealed Thursday successful his Christmas Day connection for bid successful conflict-scarred regions, calling for an extremity to unit successful nan Middle East and Ukraine.
Speaking to tens of thousands gathered successful St. Peter’s Square for his first Christmas "Urbi et Orbi" address, Latin for "to nan metropolis and to nan world," Pope Leo prayed for "justice, bid and stableness for Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and Syria."
The pontiff past turned to nan Russia-Ukraine war, calling connected believers to believe for nan "tormented people" of Ukraine.
"May nan clamor of weapons cease, and whitethorn nan parties involved, pinch nan support and committedness of nan world community, find nan courageousness to prosecute successful sincere, nonstop and respectful dialogue," he said.
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Pope Leo XIV waves earlier delivering nan "Urbi et Orbi" Christmas Day blessing from nan main pavilion of St. Peter’s Basilica astatine nan Vatican, Thursday, Dec. 25, 2025. (Gregorio Borgia/AP)
Pope Leo besides remembered civilians caught successful different conflicts, including successful parts of Africa and Asia, and prayed for bid for group suffering nether governmental instability, religious persecution and terrorism.
He urged world leaders to cull unit and indifference, stressing that bid must beryllium rooted successful justice, speech and solidarity pinch nan astir vulnerable.
"In becoming man, Jesus took upon himself our fragility, identifying pinch each 1 of us: pinch those who person thing near and person mislaid everything, for illustration nan inhabitants of Gaza; pinch those who are prey to hunger and poverty, for illustration nan Yemeni people; pinch those who are fleeing their homeland to activity a early elsewhere, for illustration nan galore refugees and migrants who transverse nan Mediterranean aliases traverse nan American continent," nan pontiff said.
Pope Leo XIV, aft delivering nan Urbi et Orbi" Christmas Day blessing from nan main pavilion of St. Peter’s Basilica astatine nan Vatican, Thursday, Dec. 25, 2025. (Gregorio Borgia/AP)
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"On this beatified day, fto america unfastened our hearts to our brothers and sisters who are successful request aliases successful pain. In doing so, we unfastened our hearts to nan Child Jesus, who welcomes america pinch unfastened arms and reveals his divinity to us," he added.
Pope Leo, nan first U.S.-born pope, was elected successful May pursuing nan decease of Pope Francis and has made appeals for bid a cardinal taxable of his early papacy.
Pope Leo XIV waves earlier delivering nan "Urbi et Orbi" Christmas Day blessing from nan main pavilion of St. Peter’s Basilica astatine nan Vatican, Thursday, Dec. 25, 2025. (Gregorio Borgia/AP)
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He has many times called for an extremity to Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine and has met pinch Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arsenic portion of his negotiated outreach.
The Vatican said successful July that Pope Leo expressed willingness to big representatives of some Russia and Ukraine for bid negotiations, a position he has maintained.
Ashley Carnahan is simply a writer astatine Fox News Digital.
