{"id":18002,"date":"2026-03-29T17:48:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=18002"},"modified":"2026-03-29T17:48:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:48:52","slug":"pope-leo-god-rejects-prayers-of-lea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2026\/03\/29\/pope-leo-god-rejects-prayers-of-lea\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo: God Rejects Prayers of Leaders with \u201cHands Full of Blood\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Pope Leo: God Rejects Prayers of Leaders with \u201cHands Full of Blood\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Pope Leo on Sunday delivered unusually strong remarks, saying that God rejects the prayers of leaders who start wars and have \u201chands full of blood,\u201d as the conflict in Iran entered its second month.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to tens of thousands in St. Peter\u2019s Square on Palm Sunday\u2014the celebration that marks the start of Holy Week leading up to Easter for the world\u2019s 1.4 billion Catholics\u2014the pontiff described the war as \u201catrocious\u201d and emphasized that Jesus cannot be used to justify violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war,\u201d Leo, the first US pope, told the crowd under bright sunshine.<\/p>\n<p>He continued, citing a Bible passage: \u201c(Jesus) does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: \u2018Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the conclusion of the Palm Sunday ceremony, the pope expressed sorrow for Christians in the Middle East, saying they \u201care suffering the consequences of an atrocious conflict\u201d and may be unable to celebrate Easter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo: God Rejects Prayers of Leaders with \u201cHands Full of Blood\u201d Pope Leo on Sunday delivered unusually strong remarks, saying that God rejects the prayers of leaders who start wars and have \u201chands full of blood,\u201d as the conflict in Iran entered its second month. Speaking to tens of thousands in St. Peter\u2019s Square [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2297,2299],"tags":[3778],"class_list":["post-18002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-pope-leo-xiv"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18005,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18002\/revisions\/18005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}