Summary The pope made the appeal after a Mass outside Angola's capital Luanda that drew roughly 100,000 people
LUANDA (Reuters) - Pope Leo on Sunday decried the intensification of the war in Ukraine, calling "for the weapons to fall silent and for the path of dialogue to be followed."
The pope made the appeal after a Mass outside Angola's capital Luanda that drew roughly 100,000 people.
The first US pope also praised the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, to end fighting between Israeli forces and Iran-backed Hezbollah, as a "reason for hope."
Earlier, Pope Leo sought to downplay his feud with US President Donald Trump, saying reporting about comments he has made so far during his Africa tour "has not been accurate in all its aspects".
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Speaking to reporters in English aboard his flight to Angola for the third leg of his ambitious 10-day Africa tour, the first US pope said comments he made two days earlier in Cameroon decrying that the world was being "ravaged by a handful of tyrants" were not aimed at Trump.
That speech, said Leo, "was prepared two weeks ago, well before the president ever commented on myself and on the message of peace that I am promoting".
Trump appeared to be responding to Leo's growing criticism in recent weeks of the US-Israeli war against Iran.
