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 CIVITAVECCHIA – Pope Francis travelled to the New Penitentiary Complex north of Rome on Holy Thursday to celebrate mass “in Coena Domini” with prisoners detained there and washed their f

 ROME – The Ukrainian Embassy is contesting the Vatican's decision regarding Ukrainian and Russian

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis once again addressed the subject of the war in Ukraine during his general audience, calling the conflict, “a blasphemous outrage against God,” Vatican sources

  VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis celebrated Palm Sunday by denouncing the "folly of war" and calling for an Easter truce in Ukraine as a prelude to peace even if it

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis received in audience the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda on Friday in the Vatican Apostolic Palace, said the Holy See Press Office.

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis addressed especially warm greetings to the Ukrainian children at the end of the Wednesday’s general audience, as told by the Ansa news agency.

 VATICAN CITY – The Holy See is evaluating how to respond to an invitation for Pope Francis to visit Kiev from the city’s mayor, Vitaliy Klitschko, Vatican sources said.  The news comes a

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis said in a tweet dedicated to women that he is praying for mothers with children escaping from the war in Ukraine, as reported by Ansa news agency.

 VATICAN CITY – The Holy See has announced it will put itself at the service of achieving peace in Ukraine.

 VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis will visit the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan in July, said Matteo Bruni, Director of the Holy See Press Office, in an official announcement Thursday.

VATICAN – Pope Francis thanked the Polish people for being “the first to support Ukraine,” during his general audience, said the Vatican News.

ROME – The Bambino Gesù children’s hospital, under jurisdiction of the Holy See, has said it will welcome child cancer patients from Ukraine, said the hospital’s president Mariella Enoc.

VATICAN CITY – "Those who make war forget humanity,” Pope Francis said, adding that those who make war "put power before everything” and “distance themselves from the common people who wa

 VATICAN CITY -- Zambian President Haikainde Hichilema had a private audience with Pope Francis Saturday and discussed the economic and social situation in the so

 KRAKOW – Pope Francis celebrated the 625th anniversary of the Faculty of Theology of the John Paul II Pontifical University in Krakow.

 VATICAN CITY –  In reference to the threat of Russia declaring war on Ukraine, Pope Francis said, "I entrust every effort for peace to the intercession of the Virgin Mary and to the cons

 VATICAN CITY -- Following the publication of the investigation, the years of the Pope Emeritus’ Bavarian episcopate are in the spotlight.

 ROME – A Finnish ecumenical delegation visited Rome for the Mass of Saint Henry, celebrated in the Basilica of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva.

 VATICAN CITY – The Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has been accused of negligence while he was the archbishop of Munich and Freising, according to a long-awaited report on child sex abuse in

 VATICAN CITY – January’s edition of the monthly ‘Pope Video’ begins its seventh year with a powerful message in favor of religious freedom and people who suffer discrimination.

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis in his Christmas Urbi et Orbi (to the city and the world) message cautioned Saturday that in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic confl

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis met the Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion Alfeyev, in the study of the Paul VI Hall at 7:50 Wednesday morning, before his General Audience, t

NICOSIA -- The government of the Republic of Cyprus will pledge a donation to support the vaccination campaign for the Covid-19 pandemic in two African countries, Mozambique and the Centr

 NICOSIA – Since its founding, Caritas Cyprus’ mission has been the same as that of the Caritas Internationalis confederation - to provide for those in need, protect the vulnerable and gi