Pope warns escalating Iran conflict could tip Middle East into ‘irreparable abyss’
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Pope Leo XIV warns that U.S.-Israel airstrikes on Iran risk creating an 'irreparable abyss' in the Middle East, urging leaders to choose dialogue.
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"Stability and peace are not built with mutual threats, nor with weapons, which sow destruction, pain, and death, but only through a reasonable, authentic, and responsible dialogue," the pope said, according to Vatican News. You can send tips to michael.dorgan@fox.com and follow him on Twitter @M_Dorgan.
"Faced with the possibility of a tragedy of enormous proportions," he added, "I address to the parties involved a heartfelt appeal to assume the moral responsibility to stop the spiral of violence before it becomes an irreparable abyss!"
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