Pope Francis encouraged multilateral peace talks on the Korean Peninsula during his traditional Easter address, ahead of a possible historic meeting this spring between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

The pope’s traditional Easter message “Urbi et Orbi”—“to the city [of Rome] and the world”—was as usual a global survey of conflicts and crises, including the Syrian civil war and the economic and political crisis in Venezuela.

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