Vatican City (Vatican), 17 September (LaPresse) – Create ‘synergy for peace’. This is the invitation extended by Pope Leo XIV to participants at the 8th Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, to be held in Astana (Kazakhstan) on 17 and 18 September 2025. "The future we imagine – a future of peace, fraternity and solidarity – requires the commitment of all hands and all hearts. When religious leaders unite in defence of the most vulnerable in society, when they unite in planting trees to care for our common home, or when they raise a united voice in support of human dignity, they bear witness to the truth that faith unites more than it divides. In this way, synergy becomes a powerful sign of hope for all humanity, revealing that religion, in its essence, is not a source of conflict, but a source of healing and reconciliation," the Pope writes.