Pope’s first trip abroad to Turkey, Lebanon

Pope Leo XIV is embarking on his first foreign trip, a pilgrim age to Turkey and Lebanon that would be delicate un der any circumstances, but is even more fraught given Mideast tensions and the media glare that will document history’s first American pope on the road.

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Leo is fulfilling a trip Pope Francis planned to make, to mark an important anniversary with the Or thodox church in Turkey. In Lebanon, he’ll try to boost a long-suffering Christian community as well as Lebanese of all faiths who are still demanding justice over the 2020 B