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World
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International
11/28/2023 9:58:53 PM
Pope Francis has cancelled his upcoming trip to Dubai for the COP28 climate talks after advice from doctors concerned about his recent flu-like symptoms, the Vatican said Tuesday.
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World
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International
11/25/2023 12:48:19 PM
Pope Francis canceled his scheduled activities Saturday due to "light flu symptoms" a week ahead of a key climate address he is due to make in Dubai.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/27/2023 9:05:05 PM
Amid the latest bloodshed in the Middle East, Pope Francis led special Friday evening prayers in St. Peter’s Basilica for a world “in a dark hour” and in “great danger” from what he described as the folly of war.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/26/2023 5:06:11 PM
Pope Francis spoke to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday about the Israeli war in the Gaza Strip, emphasising the importance of a two-state solution, the Vatican said.
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World
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International
10/2/2023 9:54:44 AM
Five conservative cardinals from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas have challenged Pope Francis to affirm Catholic teaching on homosexuality and female ordination ahead of a big Vatican meeting where such hot-button issues are up for debate.
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World
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International
9/30/2023 1:01:39 PM
Pope Francis presided over a ceremony Saturday to create 21 new cardinals, including key figures at the Vatican and in the field who will help enact his reforms and cement his legacy as he enters a crucial new phase in running the Catholic Church.
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World
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War in Ukraine
9/18/2023 8:04:57 PM
Pope Francis met on Monday with the new Russian ambassador to the Vatican, who said they discussed the pontiff's efforts to bring peace to Ukraine.
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World
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International
9/1/2023 2:27:40 PM
Pope Francis arrived in Mongolia on Friday morning to encourage one of the world’s smallest and newest Catholic communities.
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World
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International
6/25/2023 3:26:44 PM
Pope Francis offered prayers Sunday for the family of a teenager who went missing 40 years ago this week, an intervention her brother hailed as a sign the Vatican was finally engaging seriously with its most famous cold case.
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World
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International
6/14/2023 3:00:47 PM
Pope Francis, who has been recovering from abdominal surgery in a Rome hospital, will be discharged "in the next few days", the Vatican said Wednesday.
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World
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International
6/13/2023 2:05:37 PM
Two climate protesters who glued themselves to the base of an ancient sculpture in the Vatican Museums have been ordered to pay damages of 28,000 euros ($30,250), activists said Tuesday.
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World
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International
6/8/2023 10:09:56 PM
Pope Francis drank liquids, received the Eucharist and even made a brief phone call Thursday on his first full day recovering from a three-hour operation to remove intestinal scar tissue and repair a hernia in his abdominal wall, the Vatican said.
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World
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International
6/7/2023 7:56:59 PM
Pope Francis was admitted to a Rome hospital for abdominal surgery on Wednesday afternoon after developing a painful hernia linked to a 2021 operation to remove a significant portion of his large intestine, the Vatican said.
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World
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International
6/7/2023 2:44:12 PM
Pope Francis will undergo an operation for an abdominal hernia on Wednesday at a Rome hospital, where he is expected to stay for "several days", the Vatican said.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
5/16/2023 11:49:47 PM
The visit by Pope Tawadros II to the Vatican and the exchange of gifts with Pope Francis assert the amicable relationship between the Coptic and Catholic churches, reports Amira Hisham
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World
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War in Ukraine
5/13/2023 11:42:15 AM
Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy is making a trip to Rome and he will meet with Pope Francis and Italian leaders on Saturday, the Vatican said.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/10/2023 3:08:52 PM
The Vatican announced on Wednesday it released a book about the Vatican's efforts to promote Christian unity in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the meeting between Pope Shenouda III of Egypt and Pope Paul VI of Rome on 10 May 1973.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/10/2023 2:32:25 PM
Love, which has become a motto, is celebrated annually on the "Day of Brotherly Love," and 'we speak on the phone to renew it every year,' said Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II, pope of Alexandria and patriarch of the See of St Mark, on Wednesday in the Vatican.
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Egypt
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Society
5/9/2023 8:11:30 PM
Egypt's Pope Tawadros II arrived at Rome International Airport on Tuesday to begin a visit to Vatican City on Wednesday, marking 50 years of relations between the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
5/9/2023 1:43:00 PM
The upcoming visit by Pope Tawadros II to the Vatican will draw the Coptic Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches closer, reports Amira Hisham
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