{"id":284002,"date":"2025-10-07T13:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/284002\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T13:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:03:09","slug":"pope-leo-to-make-apostolic-journey-to-turkiye-and-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/284002\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo to make Apostolic Journey to T\u00fcrkiye and Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Holy See Press Office announces Pope Leo XIV&#8217;s first Apostolic Journeys abroad, which will take him to T\u00fcrkiye on November 27-30 and to Lebanon until December 2, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><b>By Vatican News<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, has announced that Pope Leo will travel to T\u00fcrkiye and Lebanon in late November and early December of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The visits will be the Pope\u2019s first Apostolic Journeys abroad.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Bruni said that the Pope had \u201caccept[ed] the invitation of the Head of State and Ecclesiastical Authorities\u201d in both T\u00fcrkiye and Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>The trip to T\u00fcrkiye would \u201cinclude a pilgrimage to\u00a0\u0130znik on the occasion of the 1700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea\u201d, Bruni said, adding that the itinerary of the Apostolic Journey to Lebanon &#8220;will be announced in due course\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Holy See Press Office announces Pope Leo XIV&#8217;s first Apostolic Journeys abroad, which will take him to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":284003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[146374,13192,50,3417,24922,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-284002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-apostolic-journey","9":"tag-lebanon","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pope-leo-xiv","12":"tag-turkey","13":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115333026079663447","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}