The Vatican’s Long Game With Iran
ANALYSIS: Behind a recent controversial honor for Tehran’s envoy lies a history of back‑channel diplomacy, shared U.N. battles and carefully tended lines to the ayatollahs.
ANALYSIS: Behind a recent controversial honor for Tehran’s envoy lies a history of back‑channel diplomacy, shared U.N. battles and carefully tended lines to the ayatollahs.
ANALYSIS: Even as both sides trade threats and boasts, the United States and Iran appear closer to a negotiated end to their 39-day conflict.
The president has claimed, without evidence, that Leo wants the Middle Eastern country to develop nuclear armaments.
‘Contrary to news reports, Pope Leo has not bestowed an exclusive special honor on the Iranian ambassador to the Holy See,’ the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See said.
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The president again claimed Pope Leo XIV 'seemed to be saying' Iran should be able to obtain a nuclear weapon. The Holy Father has never said this and has spoken against nuclear weapons.
‘The issue is not whether there is regime change or not; the issue is how to promote the values we believe in without the death of so many innocent people,’ Pope Leo XIV said.
Iraq’s Christians are signifcantly scaling back Palm Sunday and Easter observances amid ongoing security concerns due to the Iran war.
No casualties were reported in the attack in the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq.
Pope Leo XIV and U.S. bishops have said the war fails just‑war criteria, warning it lacks proportionality, last resort, and a clear moral end.
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