Pope Francis cracked jokes Monday and took an ambling walk to greet well-wishers as he opened his first full day in Slovakia in good health and spirits ahead of a solemn encounter with the country's Jewish community.
Francis arrived at the (...)
Pope Francis arrived in Hungary on Sunday on his first foreign trip since undergoing intestinal surgery in July, kicking off a four-day pilgrimage with an awkward meeting with Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who represents the type of populist, (...)
Two weeks after surgery that removed a portion of his colon, Pope Francis has resumed his traditional Sunday appearance from a Vatican window to greet the faithful.
Exactly a week earlier, Francis had delivered the blessing from a hospital balcony. (...)
Pope Francis was discharged from a Rome hospital and returned home to the Vatican on Wednesday, 10 days after undergoing surgery to remove half his colon.
Francis, 84, stopped at St. Mary Major Basilica to give thanks for the success of the (...)
Pope Francis is continuing a normal recovery from intestinal surgery, gradually resuming work, walking and eating with aides, the Vatican said on Saturday, adding his blood tests were satisfactory.
The 84-year-old pope is in hospital after (...)
Pope Francis was spending his first morning convalescing on Monday in a Rome hospital following intestinal surgery under general anesthesia and reportedly doing well.
The Vatican has given scant details about the operation Sunday evening in Gemelli (...)
The Vatican's criminal tribunal on Saturday indicted 10 people, including a cardinal, on charges including embezzlement, abuse of office, extortion and fraud in connection with the Secretariat of State's 350 million-euro investment in a London real (...)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday received VIP treatment at the Vatican, getting a private tour of the Sistine Chapel before he sat down for closed-door talks with Pope Francis.
Blinken was the first high-level official of President (...)
After the success of the Pharaohs Golden Parade, when a collection of 22 ancient Egyptian royal mummies were transported in early April from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to their final destination at the National Museum of Egyptian (...)
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.
Francis, in remarks to faithful (...)
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.
The Religious Freedom in the (...)
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.
The (...)
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 (...)
