May 21, 1982
Pope John Paul II urged Britain and Argentina to call an immediate ceasefire as the first stage in a peaceful settlement of the Falkland dispute. A telegram to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and to Argentine President Leopoldo Galtieri expressed the pope's deep anguish at the latest news of fighting in the South Atlantic.
Then
A distraught Pope John Paul II pled with the leaders of Britain and Argentina to cease their bloody fight over sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
Now
The current pope, Bendict XVI, in his first trip to the United States, expressed hope for a final resolution to the ongoing war in Iraq and for an independent Palestine to live "side-by-side at peace with Israel."
Do
you have a problem? Is something bothering
you? Write to