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Sunday service: Pope celebrates mass with millions in Manila
Pope Francis said a huge open-air Mass for a rain-drenched crowd of millions in the Philippine capital on Sunday.
A record six million expected for pope’s outdoor Mass in Manila
Pope Francis wraps up his Asian trip on Sunday with an outdoor Mass expected to draw one of the largest crowds in Philippine history.
Pope to conclude Asian trip with huge outdoor Mass of millions in Manila
Pope Francis wraps up his Asian trip on Sunday with an outdoor Mass expected to draw one of the largest crowds in Philippine history.
Volunteer killed in accident after stormy Tacloban Mass held by Pope Francis
Tragedy struck Pope Francis’ visit to the central Philippine city of Tacloban, where he was comforting victims of Typhoon Haiyan, a devastating storm...
Storm cuts short Pope Francis’ trip to typhoon-hit Philippine city
Pope Francis cut short his visit to a typhoon-hit region of the Philippines on Saturday because of an approaching storm.
Huge turnout as pope urges Filipinos to reject corruption
Pope Francis called on Filipinos to reject the corruption that has plagued this Asian nation for decades and urged them to instead work to end its “scandalous”...
Pope Francis warns: Freedom of expression does not mean insulting faiths
Pope Francis said Thursday there are limits to freedom of expression, especially when it insults or ridicules someone’s faith. Francis spoke about...
Huge crowd gathers to see Pope Francis give Sri Lanka first saint, call for unity
Hundreds of thousands of people packed a Colombo oceanfront on Wednesday to see Pope Francis give Sri Lanka its first saint, a climax to a 300-year campaign...
Pope Francis urges ‘pursuit of truth’ and human rights at start of Asia tour
Pope Francis urged respect for human rights as he began a two-nation Asia tour in windswept Sri Lanka Tuesday, bearing a message of peace and reconciliation...
Pope Francis reveals his New Year wishes: An end to war and slavery
Pope Francis made his New Year’s wish on Thursday: No more wars. Tens of thousands of tourists, pilgrims and Romans crowded into St.
Pope to address world’s woes in Christmas message
In his second “urbi et orbi” (to the city and the world) message, the popular Argentinian pontiff will address the globe’s 1.2 billion...
Tango treat for dance-mad Pope Francis on his 78th birthday
Hundreds of couples performed a tango on St Peter’s square on Wednesday in a birthday treat for Pope Francis, a proud Argentinian who was reportedly...
Pope Francis risks Islamic ire with toughened terrorism appeal
Pope Francis’s suggestion that Muslims are not doing enough to counter terrorism may increase tension between the West and Islam, but it reflects...
Pope says Islamist violence in Syria and Iraq is ‘grave sin against God’
Pope Francis said Islamic militants were carrying out a “profoundly grave sin against God” in Syria and Iraq, calling on Sunday for inter-religious...
Pope visits iconic religious sites in Istanbul
On the second leg of his three-day visit to Turkey, Pope Francis on Saturday stood in two minutes of silent prayer facing east inside one of Istanbul’s...
Pope calls for Muslim opposition to IS as rebels push forward in Syria
Pope Francis urged Muslim leaders to condemn the “barbaric violence” being committed in Islam’s name against religious minorities in...
Pope to highlight the plight of Middle East Christians on visit to Istanbul
Pope Francis has arrived in Turkey where he is expected to condemn the violence being done in God’s name by Islamic State in neighbouring Syria and...
Pope to Europe: Accept immigrants, create jobs
Pope Francis demanded Tuesday that Europe craft a unified and fair immigration policy, saying the tens of thousands of refugees coming ashore each year...
Pope Francis embraces children with autism at Vatican family gathering
Pope Francis tenderly embraced children with autism spectrum disorders, some of whom avoided meeting his gaze, during an audience Saturday aimed at offering...
Pope Francis says Big Bang theory is real and God is ‘no wizard’
Scientific theories including the Big Bang believed to have brought the universe into existence 13.7 billion years ago and the idea that life developed...
Reformist Pope Paul VI moves step away from sainthood
Pope Paul VI, who banned contraception but presided over Vatican reforms in the 1960s, moved one step away from sainthood on Sunday as Pope Francis beatified...
Pope launches review of Church teaching on family, marriage
Pope Francis on Sunday launched a major review of Catholic teaching on the family that could lead to change in the Church’s attitude to marriage,...
Pope sacks Paraguay bishop who protected a paedpohile priest
Pope Francis sacked a Paraguayan bishop who had been accused of protecting a suspected paedophile priest on Thursday.
Pope praises Christian-Muslim relations in Albania
Pope Francis called Sunday for moderate Muslims and all religious leaders to condemn Islamic extremists who “pervert” religion to justify violence,...
Vatican security on high alert over fears of IS attack on Pope Francis
Security has been tightened in Saint Peter’s Square after intelligence services intercepted a possible plan to attack the Vatican, Italian media...
Single mother among 20 couples wed by Pope at Vatican
Forty “I dos” were pronounced in St. Peter’s Basilica as Pope Francis married 20 couples on Sunday, with one bride already a mother.
Pope urges world to shed apathy towards ‘piecemeal WWIII’
Pope Francis said on Saturday the spate of conflicts around the globe today were effectively a “piecemeal” Third World War, condemning the...
Pope’s WWI tribute will be infused with personal ties
Pope Francis will confront a piece of his own family history on Saturday when he visits a World War I memorial built amid battlefields where his grandfather...
Pope Francis ‘deeply pained’ after relatives die in Argentina car crash
Two great nephews of Pope Francis, and their mother, have been killed in a traffic accident in Argentina, police say.
Pope Francis: I could retire or die in two or three years
Pope Francis has publicly broached the prospect of his own death for the first time, giving himself “two or three years” but not ruling out...
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