In a meeting with President Shimon Peres on Thursday, Pope Benedict XVI promised to do all in his power to obtain a sign of life from kidnapped IDF soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser. The pope said he would “turn to the leader of Hizbullah and present him with the human aspect and the great suffering of the kidnapped soldiers’ families.”
During the visit, Peres invited the pope to visit Israel. Pope Benedict said he plans to visit in spring of 2008, during Passover.