Pope Francis

Author of the article: VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will visit South Sudan in July, the Vatican said on Thursday, making a trip he has repeatedly had to delay because of security concerns in a country still emerging from a post-independence civil war. July will mark the 11th anniversary of…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis praised practical and spiritual efforts to promote peace on Wednesday (March 2), encouraging people to dedicate prayers and fasting to ending the conflict in Ukraine as the church season of Lent begins, and thanked countries that are welcoming migrants from the war-torn country. “Let’s…

MOSCOW: Russian prosecutors on Tuesday called for jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to serve 13 years in prison on new fraud charges. Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most vocal domestic critic, was jailed last year after surviving a poison attack with Novichok nerve agent he blames on the Kremlin. He now…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday to express his sadness and desire for peace as the conflict in Ukraine rages through the country’s borders and city streets. In a tweet Saturday (Feb. 26), the Ukrainian embassy to the Holy See said during the…

Pope Francis talked to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the phone and expressed his grief and deep sorrow. He expressed his deepest sadness on the current situation of Ukraine. The Pope Francis is really sad after seeing the sufferings of Ukrainian people and Russian invasion to Ukraine. He prayed for…

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Author of the article: VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Wednesday urged governments to combat child labor, saying it was terrible that children who should be playing are instead working as adults or scavenging in garbage dumps for something to sell. Speaking at his weekly general audience Francis also lamented…

ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis, a lover of classical music, slipped out of the Vatican on Tuesday evening to visit old friends who run a Rome record shop and came away with a gift of a CD. The visit was to have remained private but Javier Martinez-Brocal, a reporter for…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In his annual address to the Vatican’s diplomatic corps on Monday (Jan. 10), Pope Francis again voiced his support for global vaccination efforts, while condemning the “ideological divides” fueled by misinformation. In the speech, in which the pope traditionally takes stock of the world’s most pressing…

ROME — In a sweeping speech on the pandemic and other global issues, Pope Francis on Monday called for widespread vaccination in all countries and suggested the global coronavirus response was being complicated by “baseless information or poorly documented facts.” “Vaccines are not a magical means of healing,” Francis said,…