The head of the Catholic Church has issued another call for prayer for peace.
On Sunday, July 6, Pope Leo XIV, after saying the traditional prayer, separately congratulated the pilgrims from Ukraine who were present in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican.
This was reported by Vatican News.
Welcoming pilgrims from Italy and other countries, the Pope noted that in the great heat of this period their journey is “even more daring and worthy of admiration.”
The Pope then went on to congratulate certain groups separately, also mentioning the Greek Catholic pilgrims from Ukraine, to which they responded with loud applause.
After reciting the Angelus prayer, Pope Leo XIV made another call for prayer for peace.
“Dear ones, peace is the aspiration of all peoples and the painful plea of those who are tortured by war. We ask the Lord to touch the hearts and inspire the minds of rulers so that they replace the violence of weapons with the search for dialogue,” he said.
The American-born Pope also recalled the tragedy in the United States, where more than 50 people, including at least 15 children, died as a result of a sudden rise in a river in Texas.
“I would like to express my sincere condolences to all the families who lost their loved ones, in particular the daughters who were at a summer camp, due to the flooding of the Guadalupe River in Texas, USA. We pray for them,” said Leo XIV.
Let us recall that earlier in June, Russian President Vladimir Putin held his first telephone conversation with Pope Leo XIV, during which he named the conditions for ending the war in Ukraine.
