The Pope delivered his speech as part of a weekly Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican on Sunday, where he decried two weeks of “horrific violence” suffered by the people of the Middle East. On the first day of the military campaign, a suspected US Tomahawk cruise missile razed the Shajarah Tayyebeh girls’ school, killing at least 175 people, most of them children, in one of the most tragic incidents of the conflict. Mohsen Rezaee, a member of the advisory board of Iran’s supreme leader, called the American presence in the region “the main cause of insecurity over the past 50 years.”
Author: RT
Published at: 2026-03-15 22:49:12
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