New Delhi, April 24 -- Pope Leo XIV urged the United States and Iran to restart negotiations to bring an end to the conflict, speaking during a press conference on Thursday as he returned from Africa. He also emphasised that while countries have the right to protect their borders, migrants should be treated with dignity and not in an inhumane manner, as reported by Associated Press.

Leo affirmed the right of countries to impose immigration controls on their borders and acknowledged that uncontrolled migration had created situations "that are sometimes more unjust in the place where they arrive than from where they left."

"I personally believe that a state has the right to impose rules for its frontiers," he said. "But saying this, I ask...