During a phone call with Iran’s new president Masoud Pezeshkian the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, appealed to Tehran to embrace “dialogue, negotiation and peace”.
According to a Vatican statement, Parolin expressed the Pope’s “serious concern about what is happening in the Middle East, reiterating the need to avoid in any way the widening of the very serious conflict underway and preferring instead dialogue, negotiation and peace”.
The Vatican has tried to maintain a balanced position on Israel’s war in Gaza but has reiterated the need for a ceasefire, increased humanitarian aid to the enclave, and an end to the war.
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