Pope Francis blesses a child, from his popemobile, as he leaves the Manger Square after presiding over an open-air mass on May 25, 2014 outside the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank Biblical town of Bethlehem. Pope Francis invited Israeli President Shimon Peres and his Palestinian counterpart Mahmud Abbas to his home in the Vatican for a "heartfelt prayer" for peace. AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI