Pope Leo XIV tours Istanbul's Blue Mosque but declines to pray, surprising Vatican officials who had to correct official ...

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Pope Leo's visit to the 17th-century Ottoman-era mosque marked part of his first overseas visit as head of the Catholic ...

Pope Leo visited Istanbul's Blue Mosque on Saturday, removing his shoes in a sign of respect but not appearing to pray in his ...

Pope Leo XIV visited Istanbul's iconic Blue Mosque on Saturday but didn't stop to pray, as he opened an intense day of ...

Pope Leo XIV, who visited Turkey on the 28th, did not visit the Hagia Sophia—a site previously visited by his four predecessors—drawing attention to the reasons behind this decision. Some interpret ...

Pope Leo XIV visited Istanbul’s Blue Mosque on Saturday at the start of an intense day of meetings and liturgies with Turkiye ...

After Türkiye Pope Leo will visit Lebanon, on his first overseas trip as pontiff. Pope Leo visited Istanbul's Blue Mosque on ...

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

The Vatican then sent out a corrected version of its bulletin about the trip, removing reference to the planned "brief moment ...