{"id":632617,"date":"2026-10-16T17:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632617\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T17:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:30:08","slug":"pope-leo-asks-putin-for-ceasefire-to-allow-aid-to-occupied-ukrainian-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632617\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo asks Putin for ceasefire to allow aid to occupied Ukrainian town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/pope-leo\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/pope-leo\/\">Pope Leo<\/a> has asked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/russia\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/russia\/\">Russian<\/a> president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/vladimir-putin\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/vladimir-putin\/\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> \u200cto allow a ceasefire to enable aid \u200band food supplies to enter the Russian-occupied <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ukraine-crisis\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ukraine-crisis\/\">Ukrainian <\/a>town of Oleshky, the Vatican said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In a telephone call, the pope also expressed \u201cdeep concern\u201d for the humanitarian situation in \u200bthe town, taken by Russian forces in February 2022, and which \u2060faces a deepening food crisis, the Vatican said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pope Leo has asked Russian president Vladimir Putin \u200cto allow a ceasefire to enable aid \u200band food supplies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[134,111,139,556,69],"class_list":["post-632617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nutrition","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}