"I appeal to the international community to observe humanitarian law and respect the obligation to protect civilians as well as the prohibition of collective punishment, the indiscriminate use of for...

Pope Leo called for an end to the 'barbarity of war' on Sunday as he spoke of his profound pain over an Israeli strike on the sole Catholic church in Gaza.

Pope Leo XIV spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by phone and “reiterated the urgent need to protect places of worship and, especially, the faithful and all people in Palestine and Isra...