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As global tensions reached a breaking point, Pope Leo XIV took the stage at St. Peter’s Square and delivered a powerful cry for peace. Just hours before U.S. strikes rained down on Iranian nuclear sites, the Pope called on world leaders to “silence the weapons” and choose diplomacy over destruction. His words quickly went viral, striking a nerve online as war clouds loomed over the Middle East. “No armed victory can compensate for a mother’s tears or a child’s fear,” he declared, urging humanity to recognize that no war is truly distant when dignity is on the line. Denouncing conflict as a wound that echoes across generations, he called on nations to write their future with the ink of peace, not the blood of the innocent.
