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Watch our special FRANCE 24 edition as Pope Leo XIV leads Vespers at Notre-Dame Cathedral on September 25 during his visit to Paris. Our journalists followed the event live from outside the cathedral, while guests joined us to analyse the significance of this key moment in the pontiff's four-day visit to France.
UNESCO Director General Khaled El-Enany arrived on the afternoon of Friday, September 25, accompanied by Leo XIV, acclaimed, on the stage. The pope will make his speech following the director of UNESCO, and then take his first crowd bath for 2.5 km in papamobile in the center of Paris, where the public began to gather.
Pope Leo XIV began on Friday 25 September in Paris a four-day apostolic visit to France, "land of rich Christian roots" where he immediately pleaded for peace in a speech at the Elysée alongside Emmanuel Macron, questioning the influence that the head of the Catholic Church can have on political decisions. The details of Constance Colonna Cesaria, journalist specializing in the papacy.
After his speech at UNESCO on Friday 25 September, Pope Leo XIV heads to Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in the famous 2.5-kilometre papamobile to meet the faithful who await him.
In the streets of Paris, the faithful and curious gathered in the afternoon of September 25, all over the course of the papamobile which Pope Leo XIV will draw towards Notre Dame Cathedral.
The pope has landed in Paris for a four-day trip. Received by President Emmanuel Macron, Leo warned about the risks of AI and criticized France's limited legalization of assisted dying.
Crowds have already begun gathering outside Notre-Dame Cathedral as Pope Leo XIV prepares for one of the highlights of his Paris visit. Before heading to the cathedral, the pontiff is expected to deliver another speech at UNESCO headquarters, where he is set to address global challenges including peace, culture and international cooperation, as FRANCE 24's Claire Paccalin explains.
A Paris court on Friday sentenced the two main suspects in the 2022 murder of Argentine rugby player Federico Martin Aramburu to prison terms. Loik Le Priol, who fired the fatal shots, was sentenced to 26 years while Romain Bouvier, who fired first, was sentenced to 19 years. Both men had links to the far right.
This week Paris des Arts decamps to Geneva, the cosmopolitan Swiss city nestled between the lake and the Jura mountains. Valérie Fayolle is there to meet two artists who have made it their home. Young chef Danny Khezzar heads up the team at the Michelin-starred Bayview restaurant. A "Top Chef" finalist in 2014, Khezzar has two passions: music and cooking.
Back to Pope Leo XIV's speech at the Élysée on Friday, September 25, which praised France's vocation to "maintain a tireless artisan of peace and multilateralism", especially "in our dear Europe". The explanations of Marie Schuster, France 24 correspondent in Paris.
Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Paris, and was welcomed at the Élysée Palace by French president Emmanuel Macron. They are having closed-door talks on international geopolitics, artificial intelligence and peace. The pontiff is then set to deliver a speech at the Élysée Palace. FRANCE 24's Luke Shrago has more.
This week The Paris des Arts sets its cameras in Geneva, a city of contrast that reveals itself between Lake Geneva and the Alps. Valérie Fayolle meets two artists who chose to settle there. We meet young chef Danny Khezzar at the head of the BayView star restaurant.
The pope has landed in Paris, where he and President Macron will navigate the rules of religious state visits in secular France. Leo's trip will mix pilgrimage and politics on questions of morality and human existence.
On the eve of the Pope's visit to Paris, Thursday, September 24, hundreds of young people pray in the monumental nave of the Church of Saint Sulpice, during an evening organized by the creators of the Catholic account "Two Disciplines". This event, broadcast over the Internet, bears witness to a generation of young believers who have made social networks their new areas of evangelization.
Paris is making final preparations for Pope Leo XIV's first official visit to the French capital in 18 years, with volunteers welcoming crowds ahead of his four-day trip. His programme includes meetings with President Emmanuel Macron and UNESCO, a popemobile procession, a prayer service at Notre-Dame, a youth vigil at the Stade de France, and a mass at Place de la Concorde expected to draw up to one million people before he continues to Lourdes and Metz.
Catholic influencers gathered hundreds of young people for an evening of prayer at Paris's Saint-Sulpice church ahead of Pope Leo XIV's visit, highlighting how social media is becoming a new tool for evangelisation. As youth baptisms rise in France, creators say their goal is to turn online engagement into real-life communities, while Church leaders warn that influencers themselves should not overshadow the faith they promote.
Pope Leo XIV has landed at Paris Orly Airport for the start of his four-day visit to France. A welcoming ceremony was held on the tarmac in the presence of President Emmanuel Macron, marking the beginning of a programme combining diplomatic meetings with major public events across Paris, Lourdes and Metz.
Waited for by enthusiastic faithful, Pope Leo XIV flew to Paris on Friday, for a four-day visit to France, during which he will discuss a variety of topics, including artificial intelligence, migration and the fight against sexual violence.
Pope Leo XIV arrived in France on Friday for a four-day historical visit, the first in Hexagon since his election in 2025. The American Pope's plane landed shortly before at Orly Airport, near Paris, where he was to be welcomed by President Emmanuel Macron.
A century ago, René Fonck tried and failed to cross the Atlantic despite having clear weather In September 1926, the French pilot René Fonck set out on a daring attempt to make the first crossing from New York to Paris in an aircraft, piloting a custom-built Sikorsky S-35. John Alcock and Arthur Brown had flown the shorter distance from Newfoundland, Canada, to County Galway, Ireland, seven years earlier. That was in June, when good weather was expected, but the aviators encountered dense fog and freezing temperatures in an eventful but successful flight. Continue reading...
