US EditionPope Leo arrives in Turkey to begin his first overseas trip
Pope Leo XIV's visit marks the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea and seeks to strengthen interfaith ties amid regional conflicts, with 33,000 Catholics in Turkey.
- Arriving in Ankara, Turkey, on Thursday, Pope Leo XIV began his first trip abroad from November 27 to 30, including a wreath-laying at Ataturk's mausoleum.
- The trip focuses on Christian‑Islamic dialogue and marks the Council of Nicaea anniversary with a joint prayer by Pope Leo XIV and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, noting Turkey's reception of more than 2.5 million refugees.
- He will move to Istanbul for three days of ecumenical and interfaith meetings after visiting the Diyanet and meeting the chief rabbi, with more than 80 journalists accompanying him.
- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan praised Pope Leo XIV's stance on Palestinian dignity and urged reinforced ceasefire and humanitarian access to Gaza on Thursday.
- The trip will culminate with a joint declaration in Istanbul where Leo and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I will advance Catholic‑Orthodox cooperation, and Leo will pause in Beirut, Lebanon for silent prayer at the harbor blast that claimed nearly 200 lives.
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The Turkish president discussed with the Pontiff current issues concerning "the common conscience of humanity" and jointly highlighted "the importance of protecting people forced to migrate."
Pope Leo XIV speaks in Turkey ahead of ecumenical meeting with Orthodox patriarch
Pope Leo XIV received a warm welcome from the Turks on Thursday as he undertakes his first-ever apostolic journey. The pontiff touched down in Istanbul on Thursday and was immediately transported to Ankara, where he visited the mausoleum of the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. He then held a meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “I believe the messages to be delivered from Türkiye will reach the Turkish-Islamic world and t…
Pope Leo XIV began this Thursday his first international trip to Turkey and Lebanon, two destinations that Pope Francis had foreseen, but that take on even greater importance in the face of the complicated situation in the Middle East, and that will also serve to reveal how this pontificate will be. The Pontiff will thus visit two countries with very different Christian communities, and in a region where Catholicism is not the first belief.Both …
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