Tags - Vatican
Pope Francis arrived late for his weekly address in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, explaining that he had been stuck in an elevator in the Vatican for 25 minutes and had to be freed by firefighters.
News ID: 446808 Publish Date : 2019/09/02
Rasa – Pope Francis has issued a statement of condolences for the recent flood victims in Iran.
News ID: 444086 Publish Date : 2019/04/01
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati, the archbishop of Santiago and the highest ranking member of the Catholic Church in Chile, who has been caught up in the country's sex abuse scandal.
News ID: 444016 Publish Date : 2019/03/24
Pope Francis opened a four-day summit to fight the sexual abuse of children by members of the clergy amid scepticism and anger over the mishandling of decades-long cases.
News ID: 443601 Publish Date : 2019/02/23
Rasa – Father Sonmar Ghanim had the honour of visiting the Holy Shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf.
News ID: 442900 Publish Date : 2019/01/09
Ayatollah Arafi to Pope Francis:
Rasa – The head of the Islamic Seminaries of Iran said, “Jesus Christ is one of the greatest prophets. His birth was such a great blessing for mankind that God gave glad tidings to his mother, Mary, before his birth.”
News ID: 442813 Publish Date : 2019/01/04
Rasa – The new dean of al-Mustafa International University in Qom has written a letter to Pope Francis on the occasion of Christmas and the beginning of 2019 in the Gregorian calendar.
News ID: 442775 Publish Date : 2019/01/02
Rasa - Pope Francis has defrocked two Chilean bishops who have been found guilty in the South American country's unfolding sexual abuse crisis, the Vatican says.
News ID: 441029 Publish Date : 2018/10/14
Rasa - Recent revelations of sexual misconduct and cover-up within the highest ranks of the US Catholic Church have revived the sense of betrayal that devastated the American church's credibility after the first wave of scandal hit in 2002.
News ID: 439395 Publish Date : 2018/09/04
Archbishop Vigano:
Rasa - The former Vatican ambassador to the United States, who called on Pope Francis to resign over allegations that he was covering-up child abuse by priests, says corruption has reached the top levels of the Church hierarchy.
News ID: 439317 Publish Date : 2018/08/31
Rasa - The US state of Pennsylvania has accused the Vatican of knowing about recently-disclosed child sex abuse cases and involvement in their cover-up.
News ID: 439286 Publish Date : 2018/08/29
Rasa - RasaThe Vatican has expressed “shame and sorrow” over the sexual abuse of at least 1,000 children by more than 300 Catholic priests in the US state of Pennsylvania, and has said Pope Francis is “on the side” of survivors.
News ID: 439144 Publish Date : 2018/08/17
Rasa - Pope Francis says he has made “grave mistakes” in handling a sexual abuse scandal in Chile, expressing his wish to invite the abuse victims he had discredited to Rome to beg their forgiveness.
News ID: 437181 Publish Date : 2018/04/12
Rasa - The Vatican has attempted to clarify reported remarks by Pope Francis in which he appears to reject the existence of hell, contradicting the teachings of the Catholic Church on the issue.
News ID: 437047 Publish Date : 2018/03/31
Rasa - The Vatican ’s Finance Chief Cardinal George Pell, who is a top adviser to Pope Francis, has made a second appearance at an Australian court on sexual abuse charges.
News ID: 432927 Publish Date : 2017/10/06
Rasa - An Australian court has begun the trial of the most senior Vatican official that has ever been charged in Catholic Church sex abuse scandals.
News ID: 431241 Publish Date : 2017/07/26
Probe:
Rasa - When doctors and nurses at the Vatican 's showcase children's hospital complained in 2014 that corners were being cut and medical protocols ignored, the Vatican responded by ordering up a secret in-house investigation.
News ID: 430737 Publish Date : 2017/07/03
Rasa - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Pope Francis have discussed the probable relocation of US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem al-Quds.
News ID: 426555 Publish Date : 2017/01/15
The Opening of the 10th Round of Religious Dialogue between Iran and the Vatican
Rasa – During the opening ceremony of the 10th round of religious dialogue between Iran and the Vatican , the President of the Vatican ’s Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue emphasized on the continued and deep friendly relations between Islam and Christianity and stated: “We should prevent the spread of religious disease.”
News ID: 425292 Publish Date : 2016/11/25
Rasa - Participants in the 10th round of Iran- Vatican Interfaith Dialogue underlined the need for efforts to counter extremism in the world.
News ID: 425287 Publish Date : 2016/11/24