Pope Says ‘There Is No Such Thing as a Holy War’ in Message to Religious Leaders
The pontiff said war can never be waged in God’s name and urged cease-fires and humanitarian aid in a message to interfaith delegates.
- On Tuesday, Pope Leo XIV denounced religious justifications for wars during a video message to religious leaders in Assisi, saying "there is no such thing as a holy war. Only peace is holy."
- The gathering marked the 40th anniversary of a landmark interfaith meeting called by St. John Paul II, where Leo denounced the "troubling revival of war as an instrument of international politics."
- Leo previously initiated cease-fire appeals during an October 16 call with Russian President Vladimir Putin and followed up three days later with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy regarding humanitarian access.
- Monsignor Luis Marín de San Martín began a three-day visit to Ukraine on Tuesday, delivering winter supplies to Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, and Fastiv in response to the localized cease-fire.
- The Russian Orthodox Church and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have both invoked faith to justify military actions, a practice Leo rejected by stating "war can never be waged in the name of God.
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Pope says ‘there is no such thing as a holy war’ in message to religious leaders
Pope Leo XIV has denounced the religious justification for wars raging around the world, saying “there is no such thing as a holy war.”“Only peace is holy,” Leo said in a video-message to a gathering of religious leaders in the Italian hilltop town of Assisi.
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Pope says 'there is no such thing as a holy war' in message to religious leaders
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Pope Leo XIV said in a video message to an Assisi peace meeting Tuesday that countries must stop preparing for more wars, and that only peace is holy. (ANSA)
Pope Leo XIV defended today that "no war is holy" in a message sent to a forum with representatives of the main religions of the world to take place in the Italian city of Assisi. "We must rebuild peace everywhere, not prepare wars anymore. War can never be fought in the name of God. (...) There is no holy war: only peace is holy", he said in a video message. Leo did not move to Assisi because he was recently operated on lung cancer, having the …
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