{"id":448537,"date":"2026-02-04T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/448537\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T13:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:21:08","slug":"pope-leo-urges-russia-and-us-to-renew-last-nuclear-arms-treaty-wkzo-everything-kalamazoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/448537\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo urges Russia and US to renew last nuclear arms treaty | WKZO | Everything Kalamazoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VATICAN CITY, Feb 4 (Reuters) \u2013 Pope Leo on Wednesday urged leaders in Russia and the United \u200dStates to renew their last nuclear arms control treaty, New START, which caps the number of strategic nuclear weapons deployed by each country.<\/p>\n<p>Leo, the \u200cfirst U.S. pope, said during \u200chis weekly audience at the Vatican that the current world situation \u201ccalls for doing everything possible to avert a new arms \u200brace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The treaty, signed in 2010, is due to expire on \u200dThursday. Russian President \u200bVladimir Putin proposed in September \u200bthat the treaty could be informally \u200dextended for another year, but as of Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump had not responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI issue an urgent appeal not to let this \u200dinstrument lapse,\u201d said the pope. \u201cIt is more urgent than ever to replace the \u200dlogic of \u200dfear and distrust with \u200ba shared ethic, capable \u200bof \u2060guiding choices toward the common \u200cgood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The expiring of New START would mark the end of more than half a century of constraints on nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Joshua McElwee, editing by \u2060Alvise Armellini)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VATICAN CITY, Feb 4 (Reuters) \u2013 Pope Leo on Wednesday urged leaders in Russia and the United \u200dStates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-448537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}