Pope Francis Urges Korea Peace Talks as Trump-Kim Meeting Approaches

In traditional Easter message, Pope Francis also calls for end to violence in Syria and resolution to Venezuela crisis

Pope Francis encouraged multilateral peace talks on the Korean Peninsula during his traditional Easter address, ahead of a possible historic meeting this spring between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

The pope’s traditional Easter message “Urbi et Orbi”—“to the city [of Rome] and the world”—was as usual a global survey of conflicts and crises, including the Syrian civil war and the economic and political crisis in Venezuela.

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