{"id":88753,"date":"2026-04-08T16:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=88753"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:53:20","slug":"pope-leo-trumps-threats-about-the-destruction-of-iran-are-unacceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2026\/04\/08\/pope-leo-trumps-threats-about-the-destruction-of-iran-are-unacceptable\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo: Trump\u2019s threats about the destruction of Iran are \u201cunacceptable\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ana Torres Fonseca<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hours between Sunday, April 5, and Tuesday, April 7 had the world on edge. On his social media, Donald Trump issued a warning: if Iran did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz, he would launch a devastating attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>An entire civilization will die tonight, never to return. I do not want that to happen, but it will probably happen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As he left Villa Barberini in Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo XIV made the following statement to the journalists waiting outside his residence:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>POPE LEO XIV<\/strong><br><em>Today, as we all know, there has also been this threat against the entire people of Iran. This is truly unacceptable. There are issues here, certainly of international law, but even more so a moral issue for the good of the whole people, in their entirety.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the face of Trump's online threats, the message of the Pope is clear and concise: peace will not and can not be ultimately found in warfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>POPE LEO XIV<\/strong><br><em>I would simply say, once again, what I said in the Orbi message on Sunday, asking all people of good will to search always for peace and not violence, to reject war, especially a war which many people have said is an unjust war.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>War, he added, is not a solution to any conflict, but quite the opposite\u2014it creates even greater and deeper problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>POPE LEO XIV<\/strong><br><em>In fact, we have a worldwide economic crisis, energy crisis, situation in the Middle East of great instability, which is only provoking more hatred throughout the world.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tensions eased when Trump announced a two-week ceasefire, mediated by Pakistan. To continue contributing to a true and lasting peace, Pope Leo XIV has called for a prayer vigil this Saturday, April 11, in St. Peter\u2019s Square at the Vatican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ana Torres Fonseca The hours between Sunday, April 5, and Tuesday, April 7 had the world on edge. On his social media, Donald Trump issued a warning: if Iran did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz, he would launch a devastating attack. An entire civilization will die tonight, never to return. I do not want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":88754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QEO7sC15QqU","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapacasteltrumpeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapacasteltrumpint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88758,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88753\/revisions\/88758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}