Pope to religious leaders in Assisi: “There is no holy war; only peace is holy”

In a video message to participants in an interreligious meeting held in Assisi from October 25 to 27, Pope Leo XIV urged religious and world leaders to reject war as a policy and to avoid justifying it on religious grounds.

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…”