(RNS) — While Americans are recovering from their Thanksgiving dinners, Pope Leo will be flying to Turkey and then Lebanon. His first international trip, these five days abroad will show whether Leo ...

Aug. 21 (UPI) --Pope Leo XIV is expected to travel to Lebanon before the end of the year on his first international trip. Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rai, patriarch of the Maronite Catholic Church, said ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV is planning to visit Lebanon this year on his first foreign visit, the country’s Catholic cardinal said, a trip that would give history’s first American pope a chance to speak ...

Pope Leo XIV will make his first international trip by visiting Turkey and Lebanon where he is expected to focus on peace in the Middle East, meet political leaders and show his support to Christians ...

Pope Leo XIV’s first foreign trip, to Turkey and Lebanon, will be packed with opportunities to advance relations with two of the Catholic Church’s top priorities: Orthodox Christians and Muslims. It ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV is embarking on his first foreign trip, a pilgrimage to Turkey and Lebanon that would be delicate under any circumstances but is even more fraught given Mideast ...

This is the first trip for Pope Leo XIV since he took office — Andreas SOLARO Pope Leo XIV will travel to Turkey and Lebanon in a six-day trip beginning late November, his first since becoming head of ...

A plan for Pope Leo XIV to visit Lebanon as well as Turkey in late November and early December is being studied, a Vatican official said. Lebanon's Cardinal Bechara Rai, patriarch of the Maronite ...

Abbas Araghchi, speaking during a press conference in Beirut, added that the purpose of his visit to Lebanon was to discuss ...

(RNS) — I don’t expect a home run on his first time at bat, but neither will he strike out. (RNS) — While Americans are recovering from their Thanksgiving dinners, Pope Leo will be flying to Turkey ...