US chief diplomat and Trump's national security advisor, Rubio, arrived in the Vatican for a closed-door meeting with Leo, followed by a meeting with Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin.

Former Portuguese President and Prime Minister Cavaco Silva has been distinguished with the European Order of Merit. He was among 20 laureates announced by Roberta Metsola on Tuesday, including Cardinal Pietro Parolin.

Pope Leo XIV held his first meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Vatican. Macron, accompanied by his wife Brigitte, also met with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin during his visit, receiving gifts including a basketball jersey.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, warned that recognizing the right to preemptive war would risk global conflagration, emphasizing the need for a supranational legal framework.

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin urged United States President Donald Trump and Israel to cease their attacks on Iran, emphasizing that problems must be resolved through dialogue.

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 4 - Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has said preventative wars risk plunging the whole world into conflict when asked about the justification for the US and Israeli attack on Iran. "If states were to be recognized as having a right to 'preventive war,' according to their own criteria and without a supranational legal framework, the whole world would risk being set ablaze," Parolin told Vatican News on Wednesday. "This erosion of international law is truly...