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\n Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims gathered in St. Peter\u2019s Square for his general audience on Nov. 5, 2025, at the Vatican. \/ Credit: Vatican Media<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Vatican City, Nov 5, 2025 \/ 08:20 am (CNA).<\/p>\n

Pope Leo XIV appealed on Wednesday for the international community not to abandon the people of Myanmar as the country remains gripped by civil war and severe humanitarian need. He made the appeal during his weekly general audience in St. Peter\u2019s Square, which also included a catechesis on how the resurrection of Christ sheds light on suffering and death.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrothers and sisters, I invite you to join me in prayer for those who suffer as a result of armed conflicts in different parts of the world. I am thinking in particular of Myanmar and I urge the international community not to forget the Burmese people and to provide the necessary humanitarian assistance,\u201d the pope said before thousands of pilgrims.<\/p>\n

Leo expressed his concern for the long-running violence in the Asian nation, where civilians continue to suffer from armed clashes, forced displacement, and the lack of basic resources. United Nations estimates show that the crisis has reached catastrophic levels, with nearly 20 million people expected to need assistance in 2025 and some 3.5 million displaced internally, many living in precarious conditions. The situation has been worsened by natural disasters such as an earthquake in March and by limited international funding.<\/p>\n

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Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims gathered in St. Peter\u2019s Square for his general audience on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, at the Vatican. Credit: Vatican Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Holy See has repeatedly voiced its closeness to the people of Myanmar. Since the outbreak of violence, the pope has sent appeals for dialogue and reconciliation, calling on all sides to reject revenge and seek peace through mutual understanding.<\/p>\n

Catechesis: Easter as a compass in daily life<\/h2>\n

Earlier in the audience, Pope Leo continued his Jubilee 2025 catechesis on the theme \u201cJesus Christ Our Hope,\u201d reflecting on how the Resurrection gives meaning to everyday challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe paschal mystery is the cornerstone of Christian life, around which all other events revolve. We can say, then, without any irenicism or sentimentality, that every day is Easter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pasch of Jesus is an event that does not belong to a distant past, now settled into tradition like so many other episodes in human history. Hour by hour, we have so many different experiences: pain, suffering, sadness, intertwined with joy, wonder, serenity. But through every situation, the human heart longs for fullness, a profound happiness,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Quoting St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, whose secular name was Edith Stein, Leo said: \u201cWe are immersed in limitation, but we also strive to surpass it.\u201d Stein, a Jewish-born German philosopher who became a Carmelite nun and was martyred at Auschwitz, was canonized in 1998 and named co-patron of Europe.<\/p>\n

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Pope Leo XIV blesses a baby in St. Peter\u2019s Square during his general audience on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, at the Vatican. Credit: Vatican Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The pope described the Easter proclamation as \u201cthe most beautiful, joyful, and overwhelming news that has ever resounded in all of history,\u201d because it proclaims \u201cthe victory of love over sin and of life over death.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recalling the women who found the empty tomb, Leo said that moment \u201cchanges everything \u2014 the course of human history and the destiny of each person.\u201d From that day, he said, \u201cJesus will also have this title: the Living One.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn him, we have the assurance of always being able to find the lodestar towards which we can direct our seemingly chaotic lives, marked by events that often appear confusing, unacceptable, incomprehensible: evil in its many forms, suffering, death,\u201d he continued. \u201cMeditating on the mystery of the Resurrection, we find an answer to our thirst for meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pope said that seen in the light of Easter, \u201cthe way of the cross is transfigured into the way of light. We need to savor and meditate on the joy after the pain, to retrace in the new light all the stages that preceded the Resurrection.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEaster does not eliminate the cross but defeats it in the miraculous duel that changed our human history,\u201d he said. \u201cEven our time, marked by so many crosses, invokes the dawn of paschal hope. Christ\u2019s resurrection is not an idea, a theory, but the event that is the foundation of faith. He, the Risen One, through the Holy Spirit, continues to remind us of this, so that we can be his witnesses even where human history does not see light on the horizon. Paschal hope does not disappoint.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story was first published by ACI Prensa, CNA\u2019s Spanish-language news partner. It has been translated and adapted by CNA.<\/em><\/p>\n

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