{"id":237,"date":"2025-11-30T11:45:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewtnromania.com\/2025\/11\/30\/pope-leo-xiv-honors-courageous-christian-witness-of-the-armenian-people-in-istanbul\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T11:45:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:45:35","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-honors-courageous-christian-witness-of-the-armenian-people-in-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/2025\/11\/30\/pope-leo-xiv-honors-courageous-christian-witness-of-the-armenian-people-in-istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV honors courageous Christian witness of the Armenian people in Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q: Who is Pope Leo XIV?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Pope Leo XIV is the current Pope of the Catholic Church who recently conducted his first international apostolic journey.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: Where did Pope Leo XIV honor the Armenian people?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Pope Leo XIV honored the Armenian people at the Armenian Apostolic Cathedral in Istanbul, Turkey.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: What was the significance of Pope Leo XIV&#8217;s visit to the Armenian Apostolic Cathedral?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: The visit served to strengthen ties between the Catholic Church and the Armenian Apostolic Church and recognize the Armenian people&#8217;s historical Christian witness.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: What historical event affecting Armenians did Pope Leo XIV acknowledge?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Pope Leo XIV acknowledged the mass deportations and killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in 1915, which Pope Francis called a genocide.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: What was the purpose of Pope Leo XIV&#8217;s remarks regarding the Nicene Creed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: He stressed the unifying force of the Nicene Creed to help recover the unity between the Church of Rome and the ancient Oriental Churches.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: What symbolic gesture did Pope Leo XIV perform at the cathedral?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Pope Leo XIV blessed and ate the traditional Armenian offering of bread and salt, and later blessed a commemorative plaque.<\/p>\n\nThis is a summary of the article from https:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/pope-leo-courageous-christian-witness-of-the-armenian-people. Visit this link to view more.\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zp1yaCf8D2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/pope-leo-courageous-christian-witness-of-the-armenian-people\">Pope Leo XIV honors &#8216;courageous Christian witness of the Armenian people&#8217; in Istanbul<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Pope Leo XIV honors &#8216;courageous Christian witness of the Armenian people&#8217; in Istanbul&#8221; &#8212; EWTN Vatican\" src=\"https:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/pope-leo-courageous-christian-witness-of-the-armenian-people\/embed#?secret=eMwDhfmZzo#?secret=zp1yaCf8D2\" data-secret=\"zp1yaCf8D2\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Who is Pope Leo XIV? A: Pope Leo XIV is the current Pope of the Catholic Church who recently conducted his first international apostolic journey. Q: Where did Pope Leo XIV honor the Armenian people? A: Pope Leo XIV honored the Armenian people at the Armenian Apostolic Cathedral in Istanbul, Turkey. Q: What was [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}