{"id":514386,"date":"2026-04-05T15:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514386\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:01:09","slug":"pope-leo-calls-for-global-leaders-to-choose-peace-in-his-first-easter-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514386\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo calls for global leaders to choose peace in his first Easter Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are growing accustomed to violence, resigning ourselves to it, and becoming indifferent, indifferent to the deaths of thousands of people,&#8221; the pope said in his address.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a break with recent tradition, Leo did not explicitly name any country or conflict in his message.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He paid tribute to his predecessor, Pope Francis, who gave his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckg291ngq7qo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">final address on Easter Sunday last year<\/a> hours before his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Referring to the Easter story of Christ&#8217;s resurrection, three days after he was nailed to the cross, he said Jesus had been &#8220;entirely nonviolent&#8221; in the face of suffering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For Christians, Easter is the most important date in the liturgical calendar, marking the resurrection of Christ &#8211; a central tenet of the faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We are growing accustomed to violence, resigning ourselves to it, and becoming indifferent, indifferent to the deaths of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-514386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}