Pope Francis Says Next Visit Will be to Lebanon

On Monday, Pope Francis announced that his next visit will be to Lebanon, adding that he had accepted the invitation of the Lebanon Catholic Church.

In an hour-long press conference on the plane returning from Baghdad to Rome, Pope Francis revealed that his next visit will be to Lebanon.

Talking to Sky News Arabia, Pope Francis said: "Lebanon is in a crisis and it has a weakness resulting from social, religious, and ethnic persity, but the afflicted country has the power of the people."

"Lebanon’s Patriarch al-Rahi asked me on this trip to stop in Beirut. I wrote to him a letter and promised to visit the afflicted country," Francis added.

It's worth noting that Francis broke a 15-month hiatus from international travel with what is sure to be a historic visit to the Middle Eastern nation of Iraq.