“Pope Leo XIV expresses profound sorrow for all the victims of the bombings in these days in the Middle East, for the many innocents, including many children, and for those who were helping them,” the Holy See Press Office said in a statement on March 9. “He is following what is happening with concern and prays that every hostility may cease as soon as possible.”
Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi said March 10 that he spoke by phone with Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican’s secretary for relations with states, about the “difficult situation facing the border villages” in southern Lebanon, where there is intense fighting from the Israel attacks.
