CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, July 20, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Pope Leo XIV slammed the "barbarity" of the war in Gaza on Sunday and urged against the "indiscriminate use of force", just days after a deadly strike by Israel's military on a Catholic church.

"I once again ask for an immediate end to the barbarity of the war and for a peaceful resolution to the conflict," Leo said at the end of the Angelus prayer, after three people were killed on Thursday at the territory's only Catholic church.