Pontiff renews call for negotiations to end war in Ukraine (Vatican News)

Pope Francis told pilgrims in Rome on July 17 that he is “always close to the martyred Ukrainian population, struck every day by a hail of missiles.”

He continued, “How can one fail to understand that war only creates destruction and death, driving peoples apart, killing truth and dialogue? I pray and hope that all the international actors will truly work to resume negotiations, not to fuel the senselessness of war.”