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Pope Leo XIV greets the crowd as he arrives surrounded by security for a meeting with youths in Bkerki, the seat of the Maronite Church, in Lebanon, on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Pope Leo XIV prayed on Monday (December 1) at the tomb of a Lebanese saint revered among Christians and…
Pope Leo XIV arrived in Turkiye on Thursday (November 27, 2025) on his first foreign trip, fulfilling Pope Francis’ plans to mark an important Christian anniversary and bring a message of peace to the region at a crucial time in efforts to end the war in Ukraine and ease Mideast tensions. Pope Leo’s charter plane…
Pope Leo XIV will pray at the site of the 2020 port blast in Beirut that killed over 200 people and compounded Lebanon’s economic and political crisis during his first foreign trip as Pope next month, which will also take him to Turkiye to mark an important anniversary with Orthodox Christians. The Vatican on Monday…
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Italian President Sergio Mattarella (right) sees off Pope Leo XIV and Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin (left) as they leave the Quirinale Presidential Palace in Rome on October 14, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Pope Leo XVI did not go far afield for his first official trip abroad on Tuesday (October 14, 2025)…
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Pope Leo XIV. File | Photo Credit: Reuters History’s first American pope repeated his call for an immediate cease-fire and the release of hostages taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023. But Pope Leo also expressed hope for the plan to put an end to the war as he left his country estate in Castel…
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Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful at the end of the weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, August 27, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Pope Leo XIV demanded on Wednesday (August 27, 2025) that Israel stop the “collective punishment” and forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza as he pleaded for…