The Vatican announced on Tuesday that Pope Leo XIV will make visits to Turkey and Lebanon beginning in late November, his first international travel as the head of the Catholic Church.
The visit to Turkey was an expected journey, timed to coincide with the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, in which Constantine the Great, the first Christian Roman emperor, gathered the world’s bishops to create a consolidated Christian religion unified by a series of beliefs about the life and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Catholics regularly recite the resulting statement of belief, the Nicene Creed, as a prayer today.
Some reports had indicated shortly after Pope Leo was elected to lead the Catholic Church that he was interested in visiting Lebanon, a nation suffering for deca
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