On the papal plane to Lebanon: Pope Leo talks Gaza and Ukraine

Pope Leo XIV showed reporters that the in-flight news conferences of his predecessors will continue. He even answered reporters’ questions in the middle of a trip between Turkey and Lebanon. On Gaza, he said, “the Holy See for many years has publicly supported a proposal for a two-state solution with Israel and Palestine being fully independent nations, secure within defined borders. On Ukraine,” the pope said, “we’ve not yet seen a solution, but today there are concrete proposals for peace, and we hope that President Erdogan (of Turkey), with his relationship with the presidents of Ukraine, Russia and the United States, can help in this sense to promote dialogue, a ceasefire, and see how to resolve this conflict, this war in Ukraine.”