Pope Leo XIV visits Blue Mosque in attempt to promote interfaith dialogue | DW News

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Pope Leo has joined other religious leaders in Turkey with a message of reconciliation on his first trip abroad as pontiff. The pope took part in a service with Patiarch Bartholomew, the head of the Orthodox Church. The two signed a joint declaration to heal a nearly 1,000-year rift between their churches. The pontiff also joined Muslim leaders on a tour of Istanbul’s Blue Mosque. And Pope Leo later held a mass attended by tens of thousands in an arena in Istanbul.

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0:00 Pope Leo tours Blue Mosque
0:33 Meghan J. Clark, St. John’s University
4:54 Dorian Jones, DW Correspondent
8:27 Julia Hahn, DW Turkey Correspondent

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