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July 5, 2021 No Responses

Pope ‘Responds Well’ To Surgery

Pope Francis has undergone successful surgery to treat a colon problem at a hospital in Rome, the Vatican says. The 84-year-old “responded well” to the treatment, which was performed under general anaesthesia, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said. It is the...

June 2, 2021 No Responses

Pope Renews Canon Law On Sexual Violence

Pope Francis has tightened up Vatican criminal law and created clearer regulations on the subject of abuse and depictions of sexual violence, among other things. “In order to respond adequately to the needs of the Church throughout the world,’’ Pope...

April 4, 2021 No Responses

Pope Offers Easter Message Of Hope

Pope Francis, leading an Easter vigil service scaled down due to Covid-19, said on Saturday he hoped the dark times of the pandemic would end and that people could rediscover “the grace of everyday life”.This year has been the second...

March 6, 2021 No Responses

Pope Francis In Iraq, Seeks End To Violence

Pope Francis has called for an end to violence and extremism, on the first ever papal visit to Iraq. The pontiff is making his first international trip since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Covid and security fears have made...

March 1, 2021 No Responses

Pope Prays For 317 Kidnapped Nigerian Students

Pope Francis on Sunday decried the kidnapping of 317 students from their boarding school in northwest Nigeria and prayed for the girls’ quick release. Addressing the public in St. Peter’s Square, Francis said he was adding his voice to others...

January 11, 2021 No Responses

Pope Condemns Storming Of The Capitol In Washington

Pope Francis has condemned the storming of the Capitol building in Washington earlier this week and called on people to reject such violence, in a television interview to be broadcast later on Sunday. There will always be people who oppose...

January 4, 2021 No Responses

Pope: Consider Others During Pandemic, Don’t Just Focus On Travel

People need to think beyond their next travel plans and consider how much others may be suffering due to the pandemic, Pope Francis said after Sunday’s midday prayer. It would be better if people thought about how to help the...

December 26, 2020 No Responses

Pope Francis Seeks Vaccines For All

Pope Francis in his message on Friday prayed for an end to suffering in the world and emphasized on unity among the people. The Pope on the Christmas day, offered the faithful the traditional papal blessing “Urbi et Orbi’’ (to the...

December 25, 2020 No Responses

Pope Urges Help For Poor At Low-Key Christmas Eve Mass

Pope Francis celebrated a low-key Christmas Eve Mass made sombre by the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, and said people should feel obliged to help the needy because Jesus himself was born a poor outcast. The Mass was held in a...

November 3, 2020 No Responses

Pope Francis Dedicates All Souls Prayers To Coronavirus Victims

Pope Francis on Monday offered his All Souls prayers especially for those who lost their lives due to the coronavirus pandemic. “Today we pray for all the #Faithful Departed and especially for the victims of the #Coronavirus, for those who...

April 12, 2020 No Responses

Coronavirus: Pope Urges People Not To ‘Yield To Fear’

Pope Francis has urged people not to “yield to fear” over coronavirus, calling on them to be “messengers of life in a time of death”. The leader of the Roman Catholic Church was speaking at his Easter vigil service on...

December 26, 2019 No Responses

Christmas Message: Pope Defends Migrants, Calls For Peace

Pope Francis urged the world to let the light of Christmas pierce the “darkness in human hearts” that leads to religious persecution, social injustice, armed conflicts and fear of migrants. In his “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the...

November 24, 2019 No Responses

Pope Seeks End To Nuclear Weapons

Pope Francis landed in the wind and rain in Tokyo on Saturday evening, issuing a call for an end to nuclear weapons in the only country to have suffered a nuclear bomb attack. He is set to travel to Hiroshima...

June 4, 2019 No Responses

Pope Francis Approves Revision Of Italian Missal

Pope Francis has approved a revised third edition of the Italian Missal, including changes to the Lord’s Prayer and Gloria. On May 22nd during the General Assembly of the Episcopal Conference of Italy, President Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti announced th...