Pope Leo said on Thursday he hopes to travel to Turkey later this year for the 1,700th anniversary of a major Christian ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Leo XIV said he hoped to visit Turkey in the coming months for a Christian religious commemoration, in ...

Pope Leo XIV has announced plans to visit Turkey for the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, a landmark event in ...

Pope Leo told Turkish First Lady Emine Erdogan that he aims to visit Turkey at the end of November, according to a readout of their meeting at the Vatican on Wednesday by the Turkish presidency.

Leo, elected on May 8 to replace the late Pope Francis, has not yet announced any foreign trips. Francis had been planning a trip to Turkey before his death to celebrate the 1,700th anniversary of an ...

Francis had been planning a trip to Turkey before his death to celebrate the 1,700th anniversary of an early Church council with Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of the Eastern Orthodox ...

Leo is said to want his first trip to be symbolically linked to his first vocation. He could, therefore, visit Algeria as the first stop on a trip that would also take him to Turkey.