Pope Leo XIV to join interreligious peace prayer at Assisi, 25–27 October

Assisi will host a three-day interreligious peace gathering from 25 to 27 October, marking 40 years since John Paul II first invited world religions to pray together there. Pope Leo XIV will attend on the final day with Patriarch Bartholomew, and organisers say a "spiritual unification of the world" is needed for humanity to see itself as one family. Scripture does not treat shared prayer for peace as wrong, but the push to unite religions around a common peace purpose is a pattern worth watching against warnings of false peace and religious compromise.