Pope Francis News
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Protect, advance women for a better South Sudan, pope saysPope Francis joined other Christian leaders and the U.N. on Saturday in urging the protection and advancement of women in...
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Huge crowds turn out for pope’s mass in DR Congo capitalA huge crowd of singing and dancing worshippers turned out to attend a papal mass in the Democratic Republic of...
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Benedict XVI, first pope to resign in 600 years, dies at 95Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the shy German theologian who tried to reawaken Christianity in a secularized Europe but will forever...
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Pope Francis visits Iraqi Christians who have suffered under ISPope Francis, on his historic Iraq tour, visits on Sunday Christian communities that endured the brutality of the Islamic Condition...
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Pope Francis urges persons never to 'yield to fear'Pope Francis features urged people never to "yield to fear" above coronavirus, calling on them to get "messengers of life...
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Guatemalan cardinal to visit Mississippi after migrant raidsA Guatemalan cardinal who advocates for migrants will visit Mississippi following immigration raids last summer that prompted 680 arrests.The Rev....
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Pope to make environmental plea in annual peace messageMankind needs an "ecological conversion," Pope Francis will say in his annual message of peace, arguing that greater respect for...
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Pope in Japan says world must rethink reliance on nuke powerPope Francis has met with victims of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan and called for the world to...
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Pope Francis set to meet Thai kingPope Francis was set to meet Thailand's supreme Buddhist patriarch, prime minister and king at the start of an official...
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Pope to visit Hiroshima on anti-nuclear weapon missionPope Francis, who years ago hoped to be a missionary in Japan, travels to the sites of the world’s only...
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Bishop who investigated sex abuse accused of sex abuseA Roman Catholic bishop named by Pope Francis to investigate the church’s response to clergy sexual abuse in Buffalo, New...
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Pope Francis to elevate Newman to sainthoodPope Francis on Sunday declared five people saints, including Cardinal John Henry Newman, a leading 19th century Anglican who converted...
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Pope accepts resignation of Brazilian bishopPope Francis on Friday accepted the resignation of a Brazilian bishop reportedly suspected of extorting priests and covering up sexual...
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Pope approves visits to contested Bosnian shrinePope Francis has approved pilgrimages to Medjugorje, a village in Bosnia that is steeped in controversy over whether the Madonna...
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Polish archbishop meets victims of paedophile priestsPolish Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki on Wednesday said he had met with several victims of church sex abuse ahead of a...
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Pope Francis celebrates historic Mass on Arabian PeninsulaPope Francis ministered on Tuesday to the thriving Catholic community in the United Arab Emirates as he concluded his historic...
