Pope Francis on Sunday expressed sorrow over the discovery in Canada of the remains of 215 Indigenous students of church-run boarding schools but didn't offer the apology sought by the Canadian prime minister.
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Pope Francis has invited representatives of Lebanon's Christian community to the Vatican on July 1 for a day of prayer and reflection ``about the worrisome situation in the country.''
Francis announced the encounter during his Sunday noon blessing, (...)
Thousands of Yemenis took to the streets in the rebel-held capital, Sanaa on Monday to denounce Israeli attacks on Gaza.
Protesters carried Palestinian flags and banners calling for the boycott of Israeli and American goods. They also chanted: (...)
Pope Francis promised Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri on Thursday that he would visit the country but only after political forces put aside differences for the good of the people.
The Vatican said Hariri, who will also meet with (...)
Violations of religious freedom are increasing and persecution takes place in more than 25 countries, with China and Myanmar among those that have the worst records, according to a report by a Vatican-backed charity.
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A newly-published, English-Arabic book has appeared, called "The Pope and the Grand Imam: A Thorny Path – A Testimony to the Birth of Human Fraternity", and written by Mohamed Abdelsalam, Secretary-General of the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity (...)
Two visions are now attracting the arena of political analysis and focusing on the shape of the world and international relations in the phase following the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The first vision is hopeful and ambitious to lay the (...)
The Vatican said on Monday that priests and other Catholic Church ministers cannot bless same-sex unions and that such blessings are "not licit" if carried out.
The Vatican's doctrinal office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, issued (...)
Egypt's Al-Azhar's Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb voiced concerns over the spread of aggressive and hostile far-right activities against Muslims in many European countries, as he met on Sunday with German Ambassador to Cairo Cyrill (...)
Three decades war, terrorism and extremism have devastated Iraq – a modern Arab power and the site of some of the world's oldest civilisations, including the Akkadian and Sumerian cultures – turning it into a battleground for Arab, regional and (...)
Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi is taking credit for bringing Pope Francis to his beleaguered nation this week in the first-ever papal trip to Iraq, taking a moment to bask in warm glow of an event trumpeted by the Iraqi media as a historic (...)
Pope Francis ended his historic tour of Iraq on Monday, departing by plane from Baghdad after visiting conflict-torn cities, meeting Muslim and Christian leaders and preaching peace and coexistence over war.
Francis waved one last time from before (...)
Pope Francis arrived in northern Iraq on Sunday, where he planned to pray in the ruins of churches damaged or destroyed by Islamic State extremists and celebrate an open-air Mass on the last day of the first-ever papal visit to the country.
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Pope Francis held a historic meeting with Iraq's top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Saturday, in a powerful appeal for coexistence in a land torn by sectarianism and violence.
Francis's meeting in the holy southern city of Najaf, (...)
وصل البابا فرنسيس بابا الفاتيكان، اليوم الجمعة، إلى كاتدرائية سيدة النجاة بالعاصمة العراقية بغداد، حيث ألقى كلمة قبل ترأسه قداسا خلال زيارته التاريخية للبلاد.
وقال البابا من داخل كنيسة سيدة النجاة في بغداد: "أشكر الله على لقائنا اليوم"، مذكرا بأن (...)
In Iraq's holiest city, a pontiff will meet a revered ayatollah and make history with a message of coexistence in a place plagued by bitter divisions.
One is the chief pastor of the world-wide Catholic Church, the other a pre-eminent figure in (...)
Infectious disease experts are expressing concern about Pope Francis' upcoming trip to Iraq, given a sharp rise in coronavirus infections there, a fragile health care system and the unavoidable likelihood that Iraqis will crowd to see him.
No one (...)
Nasser Banyameen speaks about his hometown of Qaraqosh in the historical heartland of Iraqi Christianity with nostalgia. Before Islamic State group fighters swept through the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq. Before the militants shattered his sense (...)
Pope Francis is due to hold an inter-religious prayer service at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Ur when he visits Iraq next week - an event local archeologists hope will draw renewed attention to the place revered as the birthplace of (...)
World leaders breathed an audible sigh of relief that the United States under President Joe Biden is rejoining the global effort to curb climate change, a cause that his predecessor had shunned over the past four years.
British Prime Minister Boris (...)
Both Pope Francis and ex Pope Benedict have received the first dose of a vaccine against coronavirus, the Vatican said on Thursday.
The 84-year-old pope and the 93-year-old former pope, got their jabs as part of a Vatican vaccination program that (...)
People gathered on Saad Zaghloul Street in the town of Sammanud in the Gharbiya governorate in the Delta this week to witness the inauguration of the area around the Church of St Abba Noub, one of the stops that the Holy Family made when travelling (...)
Blue and gold fireworks soared into the sky above the Sydney Opera House as they do every year, but the harbour below was a ghost town, a fittingly creepy send-off for a year that will not be missed.
No light show will illuminate Beijing from the (...)
A long-awaited Vatican report into disgraced ex-US Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is expected to be released this month to coincide with an annual meeting of American bishops, Vatican sources said on Thursday.
McCarrick was expelled from the Roman (...)
Pope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions for the first time as pontiff while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary ``Francesco,'' which premiered Wednesday at the Rome Film Festival.
The papal thumbs-up came midway through the film (...)
