VATICAN CITY: In an unprecedented move, 34 Chilean bishops said on Friday they had offered to resign en masse after attending a crisis meeting this week with Pope Francis about the cover-up…
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis wants Chile’s bishops to owe up to the “devastating wounds” inflicted on the Church’s credibility by a cover-up of clergy sexual abuse, serving notice that his coming meetings…
VATICAN CITY: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet Pope Francis on Monday, with a protest ban imposed in central Rome as feelings run high over Turkey’s offensive against Kurdish militia inside…
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis invited Roman Catholics and members of all other religions on Sunday to observe a day of prayer, fasting, and initiatives for peace on Feb 23, urging everyone to…
TRUJILLO: Pope Francis on Saturday urged Latin America’s faithful to fight rampant violent crime against women including murder while holding mass in Trujillo. “I wish to invite you to combat a plague…
LIMA: Pope Francis made a forceful call to combat corruption in Peru on Monday, calling it a social “virus” a month after the Andean nation’s president pardoned a former autocratic leader who…
PUERTO MALDONADO: Pope Francis issued a ringing defence of the people and the environment of the Amazon on Friday, saying big business and “consumerist greed” could not be allowed to destroy a…
SANTIGO: Pope Francis accused victims of Chile’s most notorious paedophile of slander on Thursday, an astonishing end to a visit meant to help heal the wounds of a sex abuse scandal that…
PUERTO MALDONADO: After lengthy treks through the muddy Amazon, indigenous men, women and children will greet Pope Francis on Friday in a visit to the world’s largest rainforest that native leaders hope…
SANTIAGO: Pope Francis wraps up his Chile visit Thursday by meeting with members of the South American nation’s booming immigrant community, who are flocking to the region’s strongest and most stable economy…
SANTIAGO: Pope Francis, arriving in Chile to begin a three-day visit, opened his trip by asking for forgiveness over a local priest-abuse scandal that has left the country reeling — and prompted…
SANTIAGO: Pope Francis arrived in Chile on Monday to start a trip aimed at bolstering the credibility of a local Church battered by a sexual abuse crisis. Tens of thousands of people…
–Francis won’t visit refugee camps, will host interfaith peace meeting in Dhaka DHAKA: Pope Francis demanded on Thursday that the international community take decisive measures to resolve the causes of the mass exodus…
DHAKA: Pope Francis has arrived in Bangladesh for the second leg of his six-day trip to Asia amid tight airport security. Huge banners with pictures of the pope and Bangladeshi Prime Minister…
Pope Francis spread a message of forgiveness in a historic open-air mass before a sea of worshippers in Yangon on Wednesday, during a visit to conflict-torn Myanmar that has been framed so…
Pope Francis has delivered a keynote speech in Myanmar, demanding “respect for each ethnic group” but without referring specifically to its Muslim Rohingya community. Rights groups had urged the Pope to use…
YANGON: Pope Francis landed in Yangon on Monday, the start of a delicate visit for the leader of the Roman Catholic church to majority-Buddhist Myanmar, which the United States has accused of…
