Tag: Vatican

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.

New Delhi: Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi met Pope Francis at Vatican seeking support for a new legally binding International law against ‘online child sexual abuse’, a statement said. For over a year, Satyarthi has been demanding a legally binding United Nation convention against online child sexual abuse, like pornography and trafficking, which is backed by […]

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 Vatican on Tuesday denied it paid around 250,000 euros to keep schoolgirl Emanuela Orlandi in London after she vanished in Rome over three decades ago, saying a letter claiming this was “completely false and without foundation”. “The Secretariat of State firmly denies the authenticity of the document and declares the information contained […]

New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram: Father Tom Uzhannalil, the Indian Catholic priest hailing from Kerala and abducted by terrorists in Yemen, reached the Vatican on Tuesday. “Father Tom Uzhunnalil has reached Vatican,” External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted late Tuesday night. Uzhunnallil, abducted by terrorists in Aden in March last year, has been rescued from captivity from an […]

A road will be named after Mother Teresa here, coinciding with her canonisation ceremony at the Vatican on Sunday

Vatican City: Pope Francis celebrated the traditional Christmas Mass at the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Basilica church, and in his sermon spoke of how God loves everyone, even the worst of mankind. During the Mass on Christmas Eve, when Catholics commemorate the birth of the Lord Jesus, Francis on Tuesday said of his coming: “We realise that, […]