Pope Leo is fresh from visiting Turkey, where he praised the country for its religious tolerance. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople could in private have told him hair-raising stories about that “tolerance,” including the forced closure of the last Orthodox seminary in the country and the refusal of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to allow […]
In Lebanon, Pope Leo Calls ‘Palestinian State’ the ‘Only Solution’
Pope Leo was just in Lebanon, where he called for “peace,” but made no mention of the parlous state of Christians in that country, where they have been under assault from Muslims for much of the 20th century, which helps explain the continuing decline in Lebanon’s Christian population. He said nothing about “certain groups in the […]