{"id":257590,"date":"2026-08-20T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/257590\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T12:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:03:08","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-receives-the-president-of-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/257590\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV receives the President of Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo meets with the President of the Republic of Lebanon, Mr. Joseph Aoun, in the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>By Deborah Castellano Lubov<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIV received the President of the Republic of Lebanon, Mr. Joseph Aoun, in the Vatican on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The President subsequently met with Holy See Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, accompanied by Holy See Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued by the Holy See Press Office after the audience, the discussions at the Secretariat of State were &#8220;cordial&#8221; and &#8220;focused essentially on the Trilateral Framework Agreement, signed by the United States, Israel, and Lebanon and intended to stabilize the southern borders of the Republic of Lebanon and to achieve a just and lasting peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Holy See, while expressing its satisfaction at the signing of the document,&#8221; the statement concluded, &#8220;voiced serious concerns about the difficulties being experienced in implementing it, and assured its support for efforts in this regard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/content\/dam\/vaticannews\/agenzie\/images\/srv\/2026\/08\/20\/2026-08-20-s-e--il-signor-joseph-aoun--presidente-della-repubbli\/1787213396805.JPG\/_jcr_content\/renditions\/cq5dam.thumbnail.cropped.750.422.jpeg\" alt=\"Pope Leo XIV receives the President of Lebanon\" title=\"Pope Leo XIV receives the President of Lebanon\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n   Pope Leo XIV receives the President of Lebanon \u00a0 (@Vatican Media)\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pope Leo meets with the President of the Republic of Lebanon, Mr. Joseph Aoun, in the Vatican. By&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[20313,93,18378,12176,5657,71024],"class_list":["post-257590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lebanon","tag-heads-of-state-and-government","tag-lebanon","tag-paul-richard-gallagher","tag-pietro-parolin","tag-pope-leo-xiv","tag-secretariat-of-state"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117127741845643870","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}