{"id":253034,"date":"2026-04-13T14:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=253034"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:05:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:05:51","slug":"pope-leo-says-he-doesnt-want-to-engage-in-debate-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/253034\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo says he doesn\u2019t want to engage in debate with Trump"},"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 has said he does not wish to enter into a debate with Donald Trump, responding to criticism from the US leader.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I will continue to speak out loudly against war, looking to promote peace, promoting dialogue and multilateral relationships among the &#8203;states to look for just solutions to problems,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Donald Trump had claimed that Pope Leo became pope thanks to him.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t like a pope that&rsquo;s going to say that it&rsquo;s OK to have a nuclear weapon. We don&rsquo;t want a pope that says crime is OK in our cities. I don&rsquo;t like it. I&rsquo;m not a big fan of Pope Leo,&rdquo; Trump stated.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo is a sharp critic of Trump and has spoken out against a war with Iran.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo has said he does not wish to enter into a debate with Donald Trump, responding to criticism from the US leader. &ldquo;I will continue to speak out loudly against war, looking to promote peace, promoting dialogue and multilateral relationships among the &#8203;states to look for just solutions to problems,&rdquo; he said. Earlier, Donald [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":252945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253034","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=253034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253035,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253034\/revisions\/253035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}