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Pope Leo is traveling to Turkey and Lebanon on the first foreign trip of his papacy

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By Ruth Sherlock

Published November 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM EST

This Thanksgiving, Pope Leo is making his first overseas trip as pontiff. He started in Turkey, where he called for tolerance between different peoples and religions.

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Ruth Sherlock

Ruth Sherlock is an International Correspondent with National Public Radio. She's based in Beirut and reports on Syria and other countries around the Middle East. She was previously the United States Editor for the Daily Telegraph, covering the 2016 US election. Before moving to the US in the spring of 2015, she was the Telegraph's Middle East correspondent.

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