Pope to visit France in September with a stop at UNESCO
The visit will include UNESCO and Lourdes, as the Vatican says Leo XIV will make his first official trip to France in 18 years.
- The Vatican announced Pope Leo XIV will make an official state visit to France from September 25 to 28, marking the first such papal trip in 18 years.
- Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline invited the pontiff after President Emmanuel Macron extended an invitation during an April Vatican visit, citing Leo's expressed "great esteem in which he holds our country and her spiritual history."
- During the four-day visit, Leo will address the United Nations' culture agency UNESCO in Paris, then travel to Lourdes, a major pilgrimage site for Christians worldwide.
- Unlike predecessor Francis, who visited France three times but never on a state visit, Leo's trip demonstrates his strategy of engaging historically Catholic, increasingly secular European nations.
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Pope Francis has visited France three times, but he has always declined the invitation for a state visit. This time, Leo XIV accepted Emmanuel Macron's. He will be in Paris as early as September 25, with a very probable stage in Lourdes. This will be the first official trip of a pope to France in 18 years and the arrival at the time of Benedict XVI. This visit will be no less political. The Vatican is formally opposed to the proposal for a law o…
The Holy See announced Saturday that Pope Leon XIV will travel to France from 25 to 28 September for an official state visit, this being the first official movement of the Vatican leader in the last two decades, writes Politico.
Papa Lav XIV će boraviti u četvorodnevnooj poseti Francuskoj krajem septembra, tokom koje će posetiti i agenciju UN za kulturu Unesko, potvrdio je danas Vatican.
DECRYPTAGE - The Vatican confirmed this Saturday the dates of the Pope's trip to France from 25 to 28 September, but without specifying the places of the visit.
Pope Leo XIV To Make First Papal State Visit to France Since 2008
Pope Leo XIV will travel to France on an official state visit from September 25-28, the Vatican announced on Saturday, marking the first such papal visit to the country in 18 years. The first pope from the United States, elected in May 2025, is scheduled to visit Paris, including the headquarters of UNESCO, the United Nations cultural agency, according to a Vatican statement. The visit follows Leo’s trip to Spain in June and signals a renewed Va…
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