{"id":41520,"date":"2025-12-24T06:41:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/pope-leo-expressed-great-sorrow-over-russias-rejection-of-calls-for-a-ceasefire\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T06:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:41:17","slug":"pope-leo-expressed-great-sorrow-over-russias-rejection-of-calls-for-a-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/pope-leo-expressed-great-sorrow-over-russias-rejection-of-calls-for-a-ceasefire\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo expressed &quot;great sorrow&quot; over Russia&apos;s rejection of calls for a ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV called for a global Christmas ceasefire, expressing sorrow over Russia&#039;s rejection of the request. The Pontiff hopes for 24 hours of peace worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F12%2F24%2F1766558187-3118-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Pope Leo expressed &quot;great sorrow&quot; over Russia&#039;s rejection of calls for a ceasefire\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIV called for a global ceasefire for Christmas, expressing &quot;great sadness&quot; that &quot;Russia seems to have rejected the request&quot; for it, UNN reports with reference to Vatican News.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>&quot;I once again appeal to all people of good will with a request to observe a day of peace at least on the day of the Savior&#039;s birth,&quot; the pontiff said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, among the things that cause me great sadness these days is that Russia seems to have rejected the request for a Christmas truce<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; noted Pope Leo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking about conflicts in general, the pontiff said: &quot;I hope we will be heard and there will be 24 hours, one day of peace throughout the world.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo confirmed his readiness to visit Ukraine: the Vatican is preparing a plan for a possible arrival14.12.25, 11:52 \u2022 8542 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV called for a global Christmas ceasefire, expressing sorrow over Russia&#039;s rejection of the request. The Pontiff hopes for 24 hours of peace worldwide. Pope Leo XIV called for a global ceasefire for Christmas, expressing &quot;great sadness&quot; that &quot;Russia seems to have rejected the request&quot; for it, UNN reports with reference to Vatican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}