CARACAS, Venezuela -- CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Monday said he has asked Pope Leo XIV to help maintain peace in the South American country.

The Pope actively supports the parish in Gaza and promotes dialogue initiatives for the resolution of the conflict in Ukraine.

Florida Republican Congressman Byron Donalds, and candidate for governor, on X on Monday: "The President of PEACE. May today's 'Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict' become reality. May there be peace in the Middle East once and for all."

Pope Leo XIV has dedicated his prayer intention for October to collaboration between different religious traditions. This choice coincides with the 60th

At the end of his Sept. 24 audience, Pope Leo XIV issued an invitation to Catholics worldwide -- and he hopes they'll accept it.

"We are one family, with one Father," Pope Leo said, and "we inhabit the same planet and must care for it together."

Those who really love the people living on the Gaza Strip will work to achieve peace in the Holy Land, Pope Leo XIV said Sunday in his Angelus message. The pontiff expressed his closeness to all those “suffering in that tormented land” after leading ...

Pope Leo XIV has begun correcting some of Pope Francis’ more questionable financial reforms and decisions, canceling a law Monday that had concentrated financial power in the Vatican bank. Leo abrogated the 2022 law that had decreed that management of the Holy See’s assets was the “exclusive responsibility” of the Institute of Religious Works,