27-11-2025 18:03 via theguardian.com

Pope Leo gifted Thanksgiving pie during debut trip as Catholic church leader – video

Pope Leo is making his debut overseas trip as leader of the Catholic church, travelling on a six-day mission of peace and unity to Turkey and Lebanon.Leo first met President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara. He is also due to meet Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of the world’s 260 million Orthodox Christians, for celebrations of the 1,700th anniversary of a major early church council in Nicaea, now İznik, which settled ideological disputes.Leo’s arrival in Lebanon
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