00:00Pope Leo XIV is on his second day of a historic visit to Turkey, where he begins with a prayer service at the Holy Spirit Latin Catholic Church in Istanbul.
00:18The visit will also include a trip to the ancient city of Isnik, once known as Nikaya, before he heads to Lebanon on Sunday.
00:27From Istanbul, our correspondent Junior Soner Hasmar.
00:30Hello, good morning from Istanbul, Turkey, from the second day of Pope Leo XIV's visit to Turkey and the next day is also to Lebanon.
00:42The day started with the Pope having a prayer service here behind me in the church, in the Latin Catholic Church of Holy Spirit,
00:51together with bishops, local bishops and also the cardinals who are joining him in his trip.
00:58And later on, also today, he will visit an orphanage here of the poor, established by the Catholic Church,
01:05before heading later on in the afternoon to the city of Isnik, the Turkish city of Isnik, approximately 200 kilometers away from here,
01:15which is an important site in the history of Christianity, because it is the city, its ancient name is Nikaya, where 1,700 years ago, exactly the year of 325,
01:30more than 200 bishops back then gathered to take very important decisions regarding theology and the interpretation of the Bible.
01:40Among these decisions were the decision to state that Jesus is of God, that he is of divine nature.
01:49So the Pope will travel there in the afternoon and will have an ecumenical prayer service in the city of Isnik, ancient name Nikaya,
01:58before then, later on, returning again to Istanbul and having a private meeting with bishops here in the city of Istanbul.
02:06He will stay in Turkey until Sunday morning, when he will leave Istanbul, heading towards Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon.
02:16And we have come to the end.
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