OCTOBER | For collaboration between different religious traditions
PRESS RELEASE
Pope Leo XIV: “That religions might be the yeast of unity in a fragmented world”
- As the 60th anniversary of the conciliar document Nostra Aetate occurs during the month of October, the Pope dedicates his prayer intention to collaboration between different religious traditions.
- “May religions,” Pope Leo XIV says, “not be used as weapons or walls, but rather lived as bridges and prophecy.”
- At a time marked by conflicts, the Pope invites all believers to seek what unites, “to defend and promote peace, justice and human fraternity.”
(Vatican City, 30 September 2025). – Today, the new edition of The Pope Video for the month of October is released, containing Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention: “Let us pray that believers in different religious traditions might work together to defend and promote peace, justice and human fraternity.” His intention, which the Pope entrusts once again this month to the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network is proposed at a time marked by conflicts and polarization in which religions sometimes bow to the logic of opposition. The Pope invites us instead to rediscover in religion a bridge of fraternity and a reconciling force.
