{"id":4728,"date":"2026-05-16T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewtnafrique.com\/fr\/pope-leo-xiv-to-visit-france-in-september-including-a-stop-at-unesco-headquarters\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T16:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T16:00:37","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-to-visit-france-in-september-including-a-stop-at-unesco-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewtnafrique.com\/en\/pope-leo-xiv-to-visit-france-in-september-including-a-stop-at-unesco-headquarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV to visit France in September, including a stop at UNESCO headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The visit will mark the pope\u02bcs fifth international apostolic journey.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIV will undertake an apostolic journey to France from Sept. 25 &#8211; 28, a visit which will include a stop at the headquarters of UNESCO.<\/p>\n<p>The trip was officially announced on May 16 by Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni. The Holy See did not immediately release the full itinerary of the trip.<\/p>\n<p>The visit will mark the pope\u02bcs fifth international apostolic journey.<\/p>\n<p>The pope has already visited Turkey and Lebanon (in late 2025) and Monte Carlo (in March 2026).<\/p>\n<p>In April he undertook a major voyage to Africa \u2014 with the trip spanning Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea \u2014 and is scheduled to visit Spain from June 6 &#8211; 12.<\/p>\n<p>He is widely expected to also visit Latin America in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>The last visit by a pope to France dates to Dec. 15, 2024, when Pope Francis traveled to Ajaccio, Corsica.<\/p>\n<p>This story was\u00a0originally published by ACI Stampa,\u00a0EWTN News\u2019 Italian-language news partner. It has been translated and adapted by EWTN News English.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/pope-leo-xiv-to-visit-france-in-september-including-a-stop-at-unesco-headquarters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/pope-leo-xiv-to-visit-france-in-september-including-a-stop-at-unesco-headquarters<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The visit will mark the pope\u02bcs fifth international apostolic journey. Pope Leo XIV will undertake an apostolic journey to France from Sept. 25 &#8211; 28, a visit which will include a stop at the headquarters of UNESCO. The trip was officially announced on May 16 by Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni. The Holy See did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":4727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vatican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewtnafrique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewtnafrique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewtnafrique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewtnafrique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewtnafrique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewtnafrique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewtnafrique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewtnafrique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewtnafrique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewtnafrique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}