After all the speculation surrounding Pope Francis’s ability to engineer peace on his big Middle East trip, the biggest news from the visit came from his visit with Patriarch Bartholomew I, the ...

After returning to Istanbul from his meeting with Pope Francis in Jerusalem, Patriarch Bartholomew made the surprise announcement that the two of them had “agreed to leave as a legacy to ourselves and ...

Pope Leo XIV marked a high point of his first foreign trip to Turkey with a pilgrimage to the site where early Christian church leaders met 1,700 years ago under the auspices of the Roman Emperor ...

In a momentous occasion bringing together Christian leaders across denominations, Pope Leo has traveled to Turkey to observe the 1700th anniversary of the pivotal Council of Nicea. The landmark ...

Speaking with a Swiss news agency, Cardinal Kurt Koch welcomed the proposal, saying the anniversary of the Council of Nicea was “a good opportunity” for this change. Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of ...

Pope Francis might be traveling to Turkey next year for the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea, according to Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew in comments he ...

Pope Leo XIV makes the first foreign trip of his papacy to Turkey and Lebanon, continuing a journey originally planned by Pope Francis. On this day, he visits Iznik to mark the 1,700th anniversary of ...