{"id":237060,"date":"2026-02-22T18:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=237060"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:34:06","slug":"peace-cannot-be-postponed-pope-issues-message-on-anniversary-of-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/237060\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Peace cannot be postponed\u2019: Pope issues message on anniversary of war in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Pope Leo called for peace in Ukraine, saying an end to the four-year-old conflict &ldquo;cannot be postponed&rdquo;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/pope-says-peace-ukraine-cannot-be-postponed-2026-02-22\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My heart goes out again to the dramatic situation that everyone can see,&rdquo; the pope said during his weekly address to pilgrims in St. Peter&rsquo;s Square after a Sunday prayer.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So many victims, so many broken lives and families, so much destruction, so much unspeakable suffering.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo stated that peace is &ldquo;an urgent necessity that must find space in hearts and be translated into responsible decisions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo called for peace in Ukraine, saying an end to the four-year-old conflict &ldquo;cannot be postponed&rdquo;, Reuters writes. &ldquo;My heart goes out again to the dramatic situation that everyone can see,&rdquo; the pope said during his weekly address to pilgrims in St. Peter&rsquo;s Square after a Sunday prayer. &ldquo;So many victims, so many broken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":236780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237061,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237060\/revisions\/237061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}