Pope Leo XIV wraps up a four-day trip to Turkey Sunday after a warm welcome by its tiny Christian community, before heading ...

The Chicago-born Holy Father broke with his two predecessors by rejecting the invitation to pray at the Blue Mosque in ...

Pope Leo XIV has visited Istanbul’s Blue Mosque without praying there as he focused on strengthening ties with Orthodox ...

On his first foreign trip as pope, Leo XIV encourages Turkey’s Christians, government and Islamic leaders to work together ...

Pope Leo XIV made a reverent visit to Istanbul’s Blue Mosque on November 29, 2025, continuing the tradition of papal outreach ...

Celebrating the vigil Mass for the first Sunday of Advent, Pope Leo gave the Catholics what he described as “resolutions” to ...

The text of the joint declaration they signed rejects the use of religion to justify violence, urges global efforts toward ...

At a multilingual Mass in Istanbul, the Pope opened Advent by urging Christians to be “bridges of unity,” calling for renewed ...

The pope celebrated Mass with some 5,000 people, many foreign-born Catholics, in an intimate Istanbul arena on Nov. 29, his ...

Leo's final event for the day was a Catholic Mass in Istanbul's Volkswagen Arena for the country's Catholic community, who ...