The best way to describe him is as the anti-polarization pope. His biggest issues are peace and unity. He knows he’s ...

ISTANBUL, Nov 30, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Pope Leo XIV wraps up a four-day trip to Turkey Sunday after a warm welcome by its tiny ...

Pope Leo XIV concludes his Turkiye visit before traveling to Lebanon, promoting peace amid regional crises and fostering ...

During a visit to Iznik on Friday, Pope Leo issued a call for Christian unity and fraternity in a world rife with war and ...

Pope Leo lamented that the world was seeing an unusual number of bloody conflicts during his first trip outside Italy as ...

Pope Leo XIV encouraged Turkey to be a source of stability and dialogue in a world riven by conflict, as he opened his first ...

Pope Leo XIV has used his first foreign trip to plead for dialogue in the face of global conflict, particularly in the Middle ...

Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Turkey on his first foreign trip. The journey fulfils the late Pope Francis’s plans to mark an ...

The main impetus for traveling to Turkey, the first stop on the trip, is to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of ...

"This first international trip will be a very public test of Leo's papacy," writes Fr. Thomas Reese. "I don't expect a home run on his first time at bat, but neither will he strike out. A base hit ...