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Pope urges end to antisemitic violence after Sydney attack
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Pope Leo XIV speaks to journalists aboard a flight to Rome at the end of his trip to Turkey and Lebanon, on December 2, 2025. (Alessandro DI MEO / POOL / AFP)
Pope Leo XIV offers his prayers for the victims of the attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach that left 15 people dead, and calls for an end to antisemitic violence.
“Today I wish to entrust to the Lord the victims of yesterday’s terrorist massacre in Sydney against the Jewish community. Enough of these forms of antisemitic violence — we must eliminate the hatred in our hearts,” he says during an audience at the Vatican.
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