Pope Leo warns ‘tyrants are ravaging the world’ in disagreement with Trump | News World

Pope Leo ramped up his disagreement with President Trump, blasting leaders who spend billions on wars.

The Catholic leader said the world was ‘being ravaged by a handful of tyrants’ during a visit to Cameroon on Thursday.

Leo, the primary U.S. pope, criticised politicians who use religious language to justify wars.

The pope is within the midst of a furious spat with Trump, who said Leo should  ‘stop catering to the Radical Left’.

The post was prompted by the Pope labelled the US and Israeli war on Iran ‘unjust’.

Trump also uploaded a bizarre AI-generated image depicting himself as Jesus and likewise wrote on Truth Social: ‘Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible on foreign policy. I don’t need a pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon.’

Pope Leo rebutted the claims and told Reuters he plans to proceed to talk out against the war, telling reporters: ‘I don’t need to get right into a debate with ⁠him.’

Speaking at a cathedral within the western Cameroon city of Bamenda today, he said: ‘Blessed are the peacemakers.

‘But woe to those that manipulate religion and the very name of God for their very own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.’

He added: ‘The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it’s held together by a large number of supportive brothers and sisters.’

The AI-generated photo of the President as Trump has sparked fury from high-profile religious figures and MAGA fans.

Fox News commentator Riley Gaines wrote: ‘Is he searching for a response? Does he actually think this? Either way, two things are true. 1) A bit of humility would serve him well. 2) God shall not be mocked.’

Trump then deleted the photo and claimed he he posted it pondering it was him ‘as a health care provider’.

‘And needed to do with red cross as a red cross employee, which we support, and only the fake news could give you that one. I just heard about it,’ he rambled.

The Pope’s remarks today took place during a gathering in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions, where a conflict going back nearly a decade has left 1000’s dead.

The Archbishop of Canterbury backed Leo’s criticism of international conflicts.

Dame Sara Mullaly, who’s attributable to meet the Pope later this month in Rome, said she stands with the pontiff ‘in his courageous call for a kingdom of peace’.

She also urged ‘all those entrusted with political authority to pursue every possible peaceful and just technique of resolving conflict’.

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