Vatican City, Nov 4, 2021 / 12:00 pm Pope Francis met Thursday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Vatican, where the Secretariat of State stressed the need to restart direct dialogue to achieve a two-state solution with Israel. Abbas met privately with the pope in the Apostolic Palace on Nov. 4, before entering into discussions with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican’s equivalent of a foreign minister. “During the cordial talks in the Secretariat of State … the need to promote human brotherhood and peaceful coexistence among the various faiths was acknowledged,”...