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Leader of the Catholic Church Pope Francis has urged removal of international sanctions against various countries in order to facilitate their efforts to curb an ongoing pandemic of the deadly new coronavirus, known as COVID-19.
News ID: 449977 Publish Date : 2020/04/12
The Vatican has expressed sympathy with the Iranian people and talked to the US over draconian sanctions on Tehran amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
News ID: 449965 Publish Date : 2020/04/11
Pope Francis on Friday accepted the resignation of a French cardinal who was convicted and then acquitted of covering up for a pedophile priest in a case that fueled a reckoning over clergy sexual abuse in France.
News ID: 449479 Publish Date : 2020/03/08
Pope Francis has hit out at US President Donald Trump's so-called deal of the century on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying that 'unfair and inequitable solutions' would only be a prelude to new crises in the region.
News ID: 449259 Publish Date : 2020/02/24
President Hassan Rouhani of Iran has penned a letter congratulating Pope Francis on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Jesus Christ and the Gregorian New Year.
News ID: 448110 Publish Date : 2019/12/26
Pope on Christmas Eve:
Pope Francis has urged the world’s Catholics not to let the Church’s failings lead them away from “God’s love,” as the Catholic Church is plagued by sexual abuse and financial irregularities across the world.
News ID: 448105 Publish Date : 2019/12/26
Pope Francis has announced sweeping changes to the way the Roman Catholic Church deals with cases of sexual abuse of minors, abolishing the rule of “pontifical secrecy” that previously covered them.
News ID: 448071 Publish Date : 2019/12/18
Pope Francis announced he would declare the use and possession of nuclear weapons "immoral" in the Catholic Church's official manual, after visiting the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki where atomic bombs were dropped during World War II.
News ID: 447755 Publish Date : 2019/11/28
Pope Francis on Sunday scolded countries that produce weapons for wars fought elsewhere and then refuse to take in refugees fleeing the very same conflicts.
News ID: 447407 Publish Date : 2019/10/01
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
Pope Francis has denounced as “cruel” the US administration’s policy of building border walls and separating migrant families.
News ID: 445154 Publish Date : 2019/05/30
Pope Francis issued a groundbreaking new church law Thursday requiring all Catholic priests and nuns around the world to report clergy sexual abuse and cover-ups by their superiors to church authorities, in a new effort to hold the Catholic hierarchy accountable for failing to protect their flocks.
News ID: 444818 Publish Date : 2019/05/11
Pope Francis Knocks Trump’s Plans for Border Barrier:
Pope Francis warned leaders who want to erect barriers to keep migrants out that they “will end up becoming prisoners of the walls they build".
News ID: 444118 Publish Date : 2019/04/03
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
Pope Francis admitted on Tuesday that priests and bishops in the Catholic Church had sexually abused nuns.
News ID: 443350 Publish Date : 2019/02/07
Pope Francis landed in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, just hours after issuing his strongest condemnation yet of the Saudi war in Yemen, where his host has a leading military role.
News ID: 443313 Publish Date : 2019/02/05
Pope Francis on Sunday urged EU leaders to show "concrete solidarity" with 49 refugees stranded on NGO ships off the coast of Malta who have been refused permission to land.
News ID: 442876 Publish Date : 2019/01/07
Rasa - In a meeting with visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Pope Francis has expressed his concern about the status of Jerusalem al-Quds, months after the US recognized the occupied Palestinian city as Israel’s “capital” in defiance of widespread international criticism.
News ID: 441897 Publish Date : 2018/12/05
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