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Saturday, May 31, 2025
Israeli-Palestinian peace activists meet pope in Vatican
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePeace activists Maoz Inon and Aziz Abu Sarah meet Pope Leo XIV in Vatican City today.
“Peace takes shape from the ground up, beginning with places, communities and local institutions, and by listening to what they have to tell us,” the pope says when meeting the activists, according to a post by the Alliance for Middle East Peace.
Inon is a peace activist whose parents, Bilha and Yakov Inon, were killed in Netiv HaAsara on October 7, 2023. Aziz Abu Sarah is an East Jerusalem resident whose brother was killed in an Israeli prison during the First Intifada.
Today, His Holiness @Pontifex met ???????? and ???????? peace entrepreneurs @maozinon and @AzizAbuSarah for an official visit at the Vatican. This historic welcome for I&P peace leaders reaffirms Vatican support first expressed at Arena di Pace 2024, which helped shape G7 policy last year. pic.twitter.com/YGXNjqQeh5
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