Pope Leo marks first Easter as pontiff with call for hope amid global conflicts

Pope Leo has celebrated his first Easter mass as pontiff with a call to lay down arms and seek peace to global conflicts through dialogue.But he departed from a tradition of listing the world’s woes by name in the Urbi et Orbi blessing from the loggia of St Peter’s Basilica.Leo, the first US-born pope, emphasised Easter’s message of hope as a celebration of Jesus’s resurrection after being crucified, in the blessing and his homily.