Pope Leo arrives in Turkey with mission to heal Christian divide on first foreign trip

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

36% : Pattenden said the choice of countries "allows him to draw attention and show sympathy with the issues surrounding the region, without putting himself in a location that would be really controversial," like Gaza or Israel. Leo's predecessor, the late Pope Francis "did attract controversy because he was obviously on one side of the Israel-Gaza conflict and I do think in certain quarters of the Catholic Church that did cause some disquiet because he was in conflict with the Israeli government," Pattenden said.
35% : Israel said the strike, launched almost exactly a year after a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war, killed the militant group's chief of staff Haytham Tabatabai. As well as meeting religious leaders, Leo will meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey and President Joseph Aoun in Lebanon.

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