Vatican News emphasizes longstanding papal support for 2-state solution
August 18, 2026
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CWN Editor's Note: Vatican News, the news agency of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, published an article emphasizing longstanding papal support, dating back to Venerable Pius XII, for a two-state solution in the Holy Land.
The article follows Pope Leo’s appeal in his August 16 Angelus address: “I urgently call on the international community to work toward advancing the two-state solution, for a just and lasting peace.”
“The ‘two-State’ solution is, and remains, the only possible path to peace between Israel and Palestine,” Salvatore Cernuzio began, adding:
Popes have changed, as has the situation in the Middle East, where violence and division have intensified dramatically since 7 October 2023. Yet for almost eighty years, the Holy See’s diplomatic position has remained unshakeable: “two States” as the only prospect capable of guaranteeing justice and a just and lasting peace. Pope Leo XIV is the latest to forcefully reaffirm this historic position, which has endured through the decades despite the Israeli government’s firm rejection of it.The above note supplements, highlights, or corrects details in the original source (link above). About CWN news coverage.
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