Pope Francis

FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis conducts a Mass on the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Vatican City. Photo: Reuters4:3 Image: Read More

FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis conducts a Mass on the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Vatican City. Photo: Reuters4:3 Image: Read More

Pope Francis conducts a Mass on the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Vatican City. Photo: Reuters4:3 Image: Read More

Pope Francis. (Photo: Gallo Images/Getty Images) Pope Francis has donated 100 000 euros to a fund helping hundreds of thousands of people displaced by a violent Islamist insurgency ravaging northern Mozambique, a bishop said on Monday.The fund was set up by Bishop Luiz Fernando Lisboa, who is in charge of…

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis will make the first visit by a pope to Iraq next March, the Vatican said on Monday, a risky four-day trip that has eluded his predecessors.FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis holds weekly audience at the Vatican, December 2, 2020. Vatican Media/Handout via REUTERSSpokesman Matteo Bruni…

Pope Francis. Franco Origlia/Getty Images Pope Francis will make a historic visit to Iraq in March, the Vatican said on Monday.The Vatican said the programme would "take into consideration the evolution of the worldwide health emergency".Francis will be the first head of the Roman Catholic Church to visit Iraq.Pope Francis…

FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis leads the Immaculate Conception celebration prayer in Piazza di Spagna in Rome. Photo: Reuters4:3 Image: Read More

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Ethiopia's military has gained full control of the capital of the defiant Tigray region, the army announced Saturday after Tigray TV reported that the city of a half-million people was being "heavily bombarded" in the final push to arrest the region's leaders. The army chief of staff, Gen. Birhanu Jula,…

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Saturday installed 13 new cardinals, including the first African-American to hold the high rank, further expanding the pontiff's impact on the group that will one day elect his successor.Wilton Gregory, the 72-year-old archbishop of Washington, D.C, becomes the first African-American cardinal at a…