The 69-year-old Augustinian missionary, elected in a 24-hour conclave last week, called for journalists to use words for peace, to reject war and to give voice to the voiceless.

Pope Leo XIV on Monday called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press” in an audience with some of the 6,000 journalists who descended on Rome to cover his election as the first American pontiff.

  • Lka1988English
    7•1 day ago

    If you actually cared about journalists you would be speaking up already, coward.

    Is this not literally what he did though?

    Pope Leo XIV on Monday called for the release of imprisoned journalists

    • @supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1•24 hours ago

      The International Federation of Journalists records that 94 journalists and media workers, including 9 women, have been killed in 2023. Since 7 October, more than one journalist a day has lost their lives during the war in Gaza, a scale and pace of loss of media professionals’ lives without precedent. Publishing ahead of International Human Rights Day, on the 10th December, the IFJ insists that far greater action is required from the international community to safeguard journalists’ lives and hold to account their attackers.

      https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/article/ninety-four-journalists-killed-in-2023-says-ifj

      According to the annual report of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), 2024 was another particularly deadly year for journalists and media professionals. As of 10 December 2024, 104 journalists had been killed worldwide, more than half of them in Gaza, Palestine (55). The IFJ reaffirms its determination to see an International Convention for the Protection of Journalists adopted by the United Nations as a matter of urgency.

      https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/article/104-journalists-killed-this-year-according-to-the-ifj

      That is why Pope Leo XIV would speak directly speak about the Palestinian Genocide if he truly cared about journalism and the protection of it and the people who practice it.

      • @SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
        2•20 hours ago

        Labelling it ‘Middle East and Arab World’ is so fucking disingenuous when it’s Israeli scum butchering journalists. For decades now.

        I’m directing this at whomever made the diagram specifically. They can fuck off with that misdirection crap.

      • Lka1988English
        -1•20 hours ago

        So, blatant inaccuracies aside, this doesn’t change the fact that he quite literally did speak up about it, well before your toddler-esque “if he doesn’t say exactly this then he’s against us” rant.

        The fact that he said something to begin with is already a step in the right direction. What you’re asking is unrealistic.

        • @supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          0•20 hours ago

          “if he doesn’t say exactly this then he’s against us” rant.

          I never said this was a binary choice, or that he was against Palestinians, just that this it is cowardly to not mention the genocide where a historic amount of journalists are being killed.

          What you’re asking is unrealistic.

          Why precisely is it unrealistic?