Tag: Pope Francis

The Chief Minister is leading a high-level delegation of senior officials of the Odisha government to Rome and Dubai.

As per reports, Patnaik will attend an event organized by the World Food Programme (WFP) in Rome. On the occasion, the Chief Minister will share his experience on Odisha’s efforts, capabilities and success in transforming agriculture, food security and disaster mitigation in the state that have been exemplary for others.

Pope Francis has appealed for an end to the blockage of grain exports from Ukraine. At the conclusion of the Pope's weekly General Audience in the Vatican, the Holy Father again turned to the ongoing war in Ukraine, Vatican News reported.

Pillai, a Hindu who converted to Christianity in the 18th century - drawing the ire of the then rulers, was canonised at 2.30 p.m. (IST) at the St Peter's Basilica in Vatican along with nine others. A miracle attributed to him was recognised by Pope Francis in 2014 leading to his canonisation now.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Meets Pope Francis in Rome, ahead Of G20 summit. Reports stated that the meeting which was scheduled for 20 minutes lasted for an hour with the PM discussing a wide range of issues with the Pope.

Modi is also the first Indian Prime Minister Francis has met since becoming Pope in 2013.

Vatican City: Pope Francis has decided to change the Roman Catholic Church’s teaching on death penalty, by declaring it as “inadmissible” and encouraging his Bishops across the world to push for its abolition, the Vatican said on Thursday. The Catechism of the Church, which sums up the teachings, previously stated that death penalty could be […]

Vatican City: Pope Francis on Monday called on Christians to pray for all the children living in places ravaged by war and conflict in his traditional Christmas Day message. In his annual “Urbi et Orbi” (to the City and the World) nativity address, which he delivered from the central loggia of the Vatican Basilica, the […]

Vatican City: Pope Francis celebrated the fifth Christmas Midnight Mass of his pontificate where he highlighted the Biblical story of Joseph and Mary, the parents of Jesus Christ. The pontiff on Sunday night said that Christ’s parents found no place to stay in Bethlehem except for a lowly manger and noted that Christian faith demands […]

Vatican City: Pope Francis on Sunday declared 35 new saints during a canonisation mass in the Vatican. Among those being declared saints included the three “Child Martyrs of Tlaxcala (Mexico)”, who were killed between 1527-1529 for converting to Roman Catholicism, as well as 30 Brazilians known as the “Martyrs of Natal”, who were killed in […]

Vatican City: Pope Francis now has 40 million followers on his nine-language @pontifex account, Vatican Radio reported on Wednesday. “Forty million followers means 40 million people, 40 million hearts, minds, and passions,” Dario Edoardo Vigano, the Vatican official tasked with coordinating the Pope’s Twitter and Instagram accounts, told Vatican Radio. “It is a world, a […]

Vatican City: The whole of humanity has an permanent responsibility to seek peace, Pope Francis tweeted on Monday, calling the search “an open-ended task”. “The search for peace is an open-ended task, a responsibility that never ends and that demands the commitment of everyone,” said his tweet. His nine-language @pontifex account on Twitter has some […]

Vatican City: Pope Francis on Wednesday held an audience with the Muslim World League’s secretary general, Mohammed Abdul Karim al-Issa, the Vatican said in a statement, without elaborating on the content of the meeting. The Saudi Arabian government-supported NGO, once seen as a promoter of the radical Wahhabism ideology, was founded in 1962 to propagate […]

Vatican City: Pope Francis announced on Sunday that a consistory would be held at the end of June to name five new cardinals, including the Archbishop of Barcelona, Juan Jose Omella. The College of Cardinals is to meet on June 28, and the following day, when the feast of St. Peter and Paul is celebrated, […]

Lisbon: Pope Francis led a crowd of over 300,000 people in prayer before the image of Our Lady of Fatima on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the appearance of the Virgin Mary to a pair of young siblings in Portugal. Looking out on a plaza illuminated by hundreds of thousands of candles, the […]