VATICAN CITY - All outpatient services of the Health and Hygiene Directorate of the Vatican City State have been temporarily suspended following the first positive coronavirus test in the Vatican,

VATICAN CITY – The crowded annual Easter celebrations set for April are at risk of cancellation, reports Il Messaggero. Last week there were informal consultations between bishops and the governmen

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has tested negative for coronavirus, according to Vatican sources quoted by Il Mattino, putting an end to speculation as to why the pontiff had missed several appointmen

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis Sunday in his weekly Angelus address told the faithful that he is still ill with a cold and will not take part in scheduled spiritual

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis resumed a streamlined version of his normal gruelling working schedule Saturday, holding several private audiences, but remaining in the Santa Marta guest house, the Va

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis postponed his engagement with Microsoft, IBM, and other technology companies on Friday, where he was to sign the Vatican

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis’ ‘Dear Amazon’ papal document in relation to requests from the Amazon Synod, has been heavily criticised by the leading Catholic reformist movement ‘We Are Church – Inte

VATICAN CITY – Married priests will not be allowed in the Amazon despite the shortages of priests there, a papal document entitled ‘Dear Amazon’ revealed on Wednesday.

VATICAN CITY – Bed and breakfasts have allegedly been masquerading as religious structures in order to evade fines that have accrued 100 million euros in the past three years, reports Il Fatto Quot

ROME – The Holy See has denied German press reports that Pope Francis has dismissed Prefect of the Papal Household Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, Vatican sources said on Wednesday.

 VATICAN CITY – A new exhibition of early Christian sarcophagi notable for their iconography has opened in the Vatican Museums, alongside an extension of the “Mater Amazonia” exhibition on life and

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has appointed Uruguayan priest Gonzalo Aemilius as his private secretary, Holy See sources report.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has opened a refuge for nuns leaving the church, amid concerns of cases of violence and prostitution, according to L’Osservatore Romano.

 VATICAN CITY – In a historic decision for the Holy See, Pope Francis has appointed a woman as under-secretary for the Secretariat of State, the Roman Curia’s equivalent of a Ministry of Foreign Af

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI did not co-author the book that caused a storm over clerical celibacy, Vatican sources say.

 ROME – The political leaders of South Sudan have committed to a ten-point plan on the peace process for the country, presented at Rome’s Sant’Egidio Community on Monday.