{"id":616151,"date":"2026-04-19T01:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616151\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T01:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:24:08","slug":"ships-attacked-as-strait-of-hormuz-closed-again-iran-reviews-new-us-proposals-french-soldier-killed-in-lebanon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616151\/","title":{"rendered":"Ships attacked as Strait of Hormuz closed again; Iran reviews new US proposals; French soldier killed in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV said on Saturday that it was \u201cnot in my interest at all\u201d to debate US President Donald Trump about the Iran war, but that he would continue preaching the Gospel message of peace.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters aboard the papal plane flying from Cameroon to Angola, the American pope sought to set the record straight, insisting that his preaching isn\u2019t directed at Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been a certain narrative that has not been accurate in all of its aspects, but because of the political situation created when, on the first day of the trip, the President of the United States made some comments about myself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump launched the criticism on his social media platform Truth Social on the night of April 12, <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/world\/north-america\/get-your-act-together-trump-lashes-pope-exposes-his-own-god-complex-20260413-p5znh4.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accusing Leo of being soft on crime<\/a>, cosy with the left and said that the first American pontiff owed his election to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Leo has issued consistent calls for peace and dialogue, and has denounced the use of religious justification for war. Specifically, he called Trump\u2019s threat to annihilate Iranian civilisation \u201ctruly unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV said on Saturday that it was \u201cnot in my interest at all\u201d to debate US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-616151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}