Rome, Nov. 16, 2018: Pope Francis visited St Peter’s Square on November 16 and requested for a first Aid station there. The initiative, supported by the Pontifical Council for promoting New Evangelisation, aims to offer medical attention to those most in need. The walk-in-clinic is open from 8 am toContinue Reading
Vatican City, Nov. 13, 2018: The bells of St. Peter’s Basilica rang out in unison with thousands of other church bells around the world as Pope Francis commemorated the 100 year anniversary of the end of World War I. “While we pray for all the victims of that terrible tragedy,Continue Reading
October 25, 2018: Pokemon Go, the wildly successful mobile game, has been downloaded around 800 million times and scooped over 2 billion dollars in revenue since 2016. Figures like that were always going to spawn some imitators. But the latest – the Catholic Church (followers: 1.2 billion) – might comeContinue Reading
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Archbishop John Barwa of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar received thunderous applause at the synodContinue Reading
Vatican City, Oct 19, 2018: Pope Francis is considering an unprecedented visit to North Korea, according to a Vatican official. An invitation from Kim Jong Un was relayed to the Pope by South Korea President Moon Jae-in during a meeting in the Vatican on October 18. It would be theContinue Reading
Vatican City, Oct 18, 2018 – South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in met with Pope Francis today after praying for peace on the Korean peninsula in St. Peter’s Basilica. The visit marked the 55th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Seoul and the Vatican. “I come to you as president of SouthContinue Reading
VATICAN CITY , Oct 15: Pope Francis on Saturday defrocked two more Chilean bishops accused of sexually abusing minors, and to show greater transparency about how he’s responding to the church’s global sex abuse crisis, he publicly explained why they were removed. The Vatican’s unusually detailed statement announcing the laicization ofContinue Reading
In his general audience on October 10, Pope Francis said that abortion “suppresses innocent and helpless life in its blossoming.” “Is it right to take a human life to solve a problem? It’s like hiring a hitman,” Pope Francis said in St. Peter’s Square , in a departure from hisContinue Reading
