Pope Francis urges end to migrant boat deadlock

Pope Francis has appealed to European leaders to show "concrete solidarity" and allow 49 migrants aboard two ships ... has demanded more help from other EU countries to tackle the issue. Read More

Pope urges warring countries to come to negotiation table

Pope Francis has called for world peace amid the ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, adding that "a negotiated peace is better than a war without end". Source: Pope in an interview with CBS News; ... Read More

Pope Francis urges world youths to tackle climate crisis, poverty

"We cannot be satisfied with mere palliative measures or timid and ambiguous compromises," he added... Keep on reading: Pope Francis urges world youths to tackle climate crisis, poverty ... Read More

Pope Deplores Deaths in Gaza and Ukraine From 'Folly of War'

Pope Deplores Deaths in Gaza and Ukraine From ... Seven people working for the aid charity World Central Kitchen (WCK) were killed on Monday in Gaza in what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ... Read More

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By Mark Landler Torrential Rains Leave at Least 13 Dead and More Missing in Brazil The State Department said Russia had used chloropicrin, a poison gas widely used during World War I, against ... Read More

Pope Francis opens up about personal life, health in new memoir

But he also delves into the more ... of Pope Francis through hours of interviews and revisions. He told CBS News the memoir was his idea. "I said that there are many people in the world that ... Read More

Pope soldiers through Easter Vigil after missing procession

VATICAN CITY, March 30 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Saturday soldiered through a more than 2 ... Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news ... Read More

Selecting a pope

If a pope hasn't been chosen, the ballots will be burned along with a chemical that makes the smoke black. If the smoke is white, however, the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics have a new head ... Read More

Pope withdraws from Good Friday event at last minute ‘to preserve health’

Vatican says 87-year-old Francis’s sudden no-show is attempt to conserve his strength ahead of more Easter engagements Pope Francis cancelled ... Orbi (to the city and world) message and ... Read More

Pope Francis presides over Easter Sunday Mass, condemns 'the walls of selfishness and indifference'

Pope Francis gave ... We live in a world where facts and fiction get blurred Who we choose to trust can have a profound impact on our lives. Join thousands of devoted South Africans who look to News24 ... Read More

Pope overcomes health concerns to preside over Easter Mass and appeal for peace in Gaza and Ukraine

The Vatican said some 60,000 people attended the Mass, with more packing the Via della ... et Orbi” (to the city and the world) blessing, in which the pope traditionally offers a laundry list ... Read More