12th of April, 2026 / כ״ה נסן ה׳תשפ״ו l Pope Leo letter Greetings from the Holy Land,

I write to you again as we approach Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) this Tuesday, April 14. Within living memory, during the horrors of the Holocaust (1933–1945), our people learned that when the world remains “neutral” in the face of an eliminationist ideology, it effectively grants its consent to the aggressor. We have noted with increasing concern the progression of your recent public addresses: • On Palm Sunday (March 29, 2026): You stated that God “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war.” By applying these verses broadly, you created a moral equivalence between those........

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