United in prayer: Political and religious differences were put to one side last night as Israeli President Shimon Peres (left) and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (right) joked and hugged at Francis' Vatican residence before attending a sunset invocation of Jewish, Christian and Muslim worship
Momentous: The pope, the two presidents and Patriarch Bartholomew then planted an olive tree and members of each delegation shook hands as music played before adjourning for private talks
Interfaith: The pope, the two presidents and Patriarch Bartholomew stood for a picture before heading off for private talks. The pope spoke after Jewish rabbis, Christian cardinals and Muslim Imams read and chanted from the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Koran in Italian, English, Hebrew and Arabic in the first such inter-religious event in the Vatican
'Supreme responsibility': Francis, who made the surprise invitation to the two leaders during his trip to the Holy Land last month, said that the search for peace was 'an act of supreme responsibility before our consciences and before our peoples'