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March 10, 2025 No Responses

Pope Francis Thanks Doctors As Condition Improves

Pope Francis, who is responding well to treatment for pneumonia, thanked his doctors and healthcare workers Sunday as he missed delivering a fourth straight Angelus prayer in person. The 88-year-old, in Rome’s Gemelli hospital since February 14, issued a written...

March 7, 2025 No Responses

Pope Releases Audio Message From Hospital

Pope Francis recorded and released an audio message on Thursday thanking those who have been praying for his recovery, his voice breathless as he nears three weeks in hospital with pneumonia. “I thank you from the bottom of my heart...

January 1, 2025 No Responses

Pope’s New Year Message

Pope Francis has shared a heartfelt message with the world for New Year 2025. Brotherhood is the hope for the world. The pontiff argues that this brotherhood isn’t just a catchy phrase or slogan, but is deeply rooted in the figure of ...

October 24, 2024 No Responses

New Vatican Ambassador Arrives Nigeria

His Excellency, the Most Reverend Michael F. Crotty, appointed on Tuesday, 16 July, 2024, by His Holiness, Pope Francis, has arrived in Nigeria at the Nunciature/Vatican-Holy See Embassy in Abuja.

May 3, 2024 No Responses

Pope Appoints Substantive Bishop For Ahiara Diocese

The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Simeon Okezuo Nwobi, C.M.F., until now titular Bishop of Rusgunie and auxiliary of the apostolic administrator sede vacante of Ahiara, as Bishop of the diocese of Ahiara, Nigeria.Bishop Simeon Okezuo Nwobi, C.M.F., was born...

January 9, 2024 No Responses

Pope Urges Global Ban On Surrogacy

POPE Francis called Monday for a global ban on surrogacy saying the practice of a woman carrying another person’s child was “deplorable”. In his New Year’s address to diplomats at the Vatican, the 87-year-old pontiff said it was a “grave...

December 26, 2023 No Responses

Kaigama: Pope Did Not Approve Blessing For Same-Sex Couples

The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, Ignatius Kaigama, has said that media reports claiming that the Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis, had approved blessings for same-sex couples, was untrue. Kaigama made the clarification in his homily during the Christmas Mass he...

December 9, 2023 No Responses

POPE APPOINTS NEW BISHOP OF ILORIN

Following the death on New Year’s Day in 2022 of Most Rev. Paul Olawoore, Bishop of Ilorin (2018-2022) aged 60, Pope Francis on Friday appointed a substantive new Bishop of Ilorin in the person of Very Rev. Fr. Anselm Pendo...

October 23, 2023 No Responses

Pope Urges End To Hamas-Israel Conflict

Pope Francis pleaded Sunday for an end to the Hamas-Israeli conflict amid fears it could widen and called for more humanitarian aid to be allowed into to the Gaza Strip. “War is always a defeat, it is a destruction of...

October 15, 2023 No Responses

Pope Names Auxiliary Bishop Of Ahiara Diocese

THE Holy Father Pope Francis has appointed Msgr. Simon Okezuo Nwobi, until now Under-Secretary for the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See in the Vatican as Auxiliary Bishop to the Apostolic Administrator sede vacante of Ahiara, Most Reverend....

September 24, 2023 No Responses

Pope To Europe: Don’t Treat Migrants As Invaders

Pope Francis on Saturday urged European governments to welcome migrants instead of viewing them as invaders, striding into in a hugely sensitive political debate again inflamed by mass arrivals on the second day of his visit to France’s Mediterranean port...

April 9, 2023 No Responses

Pope Francis Decries ‘Icy Winds Of War’ At Easter Vigil

On Holy Saturday, Pope Francis celebrated the festive Easter Vigil commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Around 8,000 spectators attended the celebration, according to Italy’s ANSA news agency. In his homily, the p...

January 6, 2022 No Responses

Pope Criticises Couples Who Don’t Want To Have Children

Pope Francis has criticised couples who choose not to have children. The 85-year-old told scores of the faithful at a general audience in the Vatican audience hall on Wednesday. “Too many couples don’t have children because they don’t want an...

December 25, 2021 No Responses

Pope Francis’ Christmas Homily

Below is the full text of Pope Francis’ homily for the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord, delivered Dec. 24, 2021 in St. Peter’s Basilica. In the darkness, a light shines. An angel appears, the glory of the Lord...