00:00Pope Leo XIV marks Pentecost Sunday with a plea for peace, praying that humanity might be saved from the evil
00:08of war.
00:09The service, which marks the 50th day after Catholic Easter, was celebrated in St. Peter's Basilica in the presence of
00:18about 5,000 worshippers.
00:21Pope Leo prays that the Holy Spirit will also renew the Church in its mission to transform confusion into communion.
00:28Con cuore ardente preghiamo oggi che lo spirito del risorto ci salvi dal male della guerra, che viene vinta non
00:40da una superpotenza, ma dall'omnipotenza dell'amore.
00:46Preghiamo affinché liberi l'umanità dalla miseria, che viene riscattata non da una ricchezza incalcolabile, ma da un dono inesauribile.
00:58The Pope warned that some changes do not bring new life to the world, but make it grow old through
01:05error and violence.
01:08By contrast, Pope Leo said,
01:11The Holy Spirit enlightens minds and instills new vitality in hearts.
01:16Pentecost is widely celebrated across Europe as both a major Christian festival and a public holiday.
01:28Russia launched a wave of overnight strikes on Kyiv early on Sunday, killing several people and leaving dozens injured, local
01:36authorities said.
01:37The intense assault shook buildings across the city's center, including near government offices, residential buildings and schools.
01:45Damage was recorded across at least nine districts of the capital, according to the head of the Kyiv military administration.
01:53In one district, a school was damaged while people were sheltered inside, Kyiv mayor Vitaly Klitschko said,
01:59as local authorities reported supermarkets and warehouses across the city were also damaged.
02:05Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed on Sunday that Russia had used the nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile in the attack.
02:13It comes after he warned of intelligence, indicating that possibility a day earlier.
02:20Ukrainian authorities said Russian strikes had also wounded three people in the broader Kyiv region,
02:2511 in the Cherkassy region and 7 in the Dnieper-Petrovsk region.
02:34Three volunteers working for the Red Cross and the Democratic Republic of Congo have died from suspected cases of Ebola
02:41in the Ituri province,
02:42the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in the country, the organization said on Saturday.
02:46The volunteers were among the first named victims of the epidemic, which is being driven by the rare Bundibujo virus.
02:5482 cases of Ebola had so far been confirmed in the DRC, with seven confirmed deaths.
03:00But the World Health Organization chief said the scale of the epidemic in the country was likely much larger,
03:06with around 750 suspected cases and 177 suspected deaths.
03:12The DRC's Ministry of Communication and Media put the number of suspected deaths at 204 as of Friday.
03:19The outbreak has also spread into neighboring Uganda.
03:24WHO raised its public health risk from the Ebola outbreak from high to very high in the DRC earlier this
03:30week.
03:30It said the global risk remained low.
03:37A large-scale bomb blast has targeted a train transporting military personnel in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province,
03:46leaving dozens of people dead.
03:48The explosion occurred on Sunday as the train made its way through Chaman, Patak, in the regional capital of Qatar,
03:55with at least 24 people confirmed dead.
03:59Footage from the scene showed piles of rubble surrounding burnt-out carriages and vehicles,
04:05with a senior official confirming an explosive-laden car struck the train.
04:09The Balochistan Liberation Army, which fights to establish an independent state, claimed responsibility for the attack.
04:17Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif strongly condemned the bombing,
04:20declaring that such cowardly acts cannot weaken the resolve of the country.
04:26Pakistani Senator Sherry Rahman also condemned the attack,
04:29noting that most of the victims were women and children traveling for the Islamic Festival of Aid.
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