The Pope brought the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and the presidents of Israel and Palestine together on Pentecost Sunday for an unprecedented prayer service in the Vatican Gardens.

During a trip to Israel and the region last month Pope Francis invited President Shimon Peres and President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas to join him at the Vatican to pray for peace.

VATICAN CITY — An evening of prayer and music in the Vatican Gardens will be the format of the much-anticipated prayer for peace with Israeli and Palestinian presidents and Pope Francis on Pentecost ...

Pope Francis addressed diplomats and religious leaders on the tenth anniversary of his “Invocation for Peace” in the Holy Land, when he planted an olive tree with Israeli and Palestinian leaders and ...

Peres mentioned the peace invocation ceremony at the Vatican Sunday, saying that both sides deserved peace and neither could afford to give up on the chances of attaining it.