Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said that “peace cannot be postponed” in Ukraine as he addressed the UN General Assembly. Speaking in New York on September 26, the cardinal also pointed to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and called for an end to violence against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank.
Cardinal Parolin conveyed the greetings of Pope Leo XIV to the Assembly, who said that the year’s theme of restoring geopolitical trust represented an “urgent moral and political imperative.” “Every international institution, beyond its legal framework, requires mutual trust among its members to be effective,” he said.
