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Pope Francis speaks from the window of the apostolic palace overlooking St. Peter’s Squsre during the weekly Angelus prayer on February 7, 2021 in the Vatican, during the Covid-19 pandemic. (Photo by Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP)Pope Francis on Sunday expressed “solidarity with the people of Myanmar” following last week’s military…

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DUBAI: The Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres and Moroccan-French activist Latifa Ibn Ziaten received the Zayed Award for Human Fraternity in a virtual ceremony on Thursday. Guterres won “for his work on unifying the world,” Adama Dieng, one of the judges, told Arab News, while Ibn Ziaten — whose son…

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Burhans’s family was nominally Catholic. She had attended a parochial school through third grade, and Mercyhurst and Canisius are both Catholic institutions. But when she went to church as a child, she said, “I’m pretty sure I was only in it for the doughnuts.” When she was twelve, the Boston…

Discovery+, the non-fiction subscription streaming service, has acquired and will globally launch the documentary film “Francesco” about Pope Francis. “Francesco” will provide an intimate look at His Holiness and his approach to complex issues like climate change, migration and refugees, female empowerment, sexual abuse and LBGTQ issues, the pandemic and…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis marked Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday by warning that warped ideologies can pave the way to another genocide. Francis spoke off the cuff at the end of his weekly general audience, held in his private library because of coronavirus restrictions, to commemorate the 76th anniversary…

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is once again canceling public appearances due to nerve pain. Francis will not participate in three events over the coming days “due to a recurrence of sciatica,” Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a statement on Saturday. The 84-year-old pope will go ahead with…

FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis delivers his weekly general audience from the library in the Apostolic Palace, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at the Vatican, January 13, 2021. Vatican Media/?Handout via REUTERS VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has suffered a renewed flare-up of a sciatica condition that causes pain…