The pope has renewed his appeal for peace in Syria and an end to its six year conflict. Speaking at his weekly audience on Wednesday he told those gathered: "I want to emphasise and reiterate my so...
Pope Francis has welcomed the end of the conflict in Colombia after government forces and FARC (Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) rebels The pontiff was speaking as the end of...
Pope Francis' reported comments to a gay man that "God made you like this" have been embraced by the LGBT community as another sign of Francis' desire to make g Juan Carlos Cruz, the main whistleblow...
He made the comments during an audience with the cardinals who elected him. Pope Francis has paid a heartfelt tribute to his predecessor Benedict the 16th saying his faith and teaching had "enriched ...
Pope Francis celebrated Mauritius' ethnic and religious diversity during a day-long trip to the Indian Ocean nation, but he also urged the government to resist Francis spent the final day of his wee...
Pope Francis has complimented the people of Mexico during his weekly audience, praising them for being "so welcoming to migrants. God bless you". A group of Mexicans present in St Peter's Square for ...
Pope Francis has congratulated a small Arab country for its "generosity" in welcoming more than one million refugees. He also praised the "welcoming hearts" of the Lebanese people in accepting both C...
Pope Francis has said that prayer prevents the hardening of the heart and makes a real difference to the lives of ordinary people. He was speaking at Mass at the Casa Santa Marta and discussed how pr...
Pope Francis has visited the site of an earthquake in central Italy which killed nearly 300 people, praying silently alone amid the rubble. The Vatican only announced the Pope's visit to the quake z...
The Catholic Church has been given 35 new saints, proclaimed during a Mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St Peter's Square, Rome. Thirty of the saints proclaimed on Sunday are martyrs, including prie...
The five day visit by Francis is the first papal trip to Asia for 15 years. Pope Francis has celebrated an open air mass with more than 50,000 Catholics at a football stadium in South Korea on the se...
Pope Francis has spoken on the topic of family and illness in his latest June address. The Holy Father talked about the work of Jesus, who met with the sick and healed them.The address said that Jesu...
The Pope has reactivated his plans for a trip to South Sudan. Pope Francis was forced to cancel the visit in 2017 because of the civil war in the world's youngest country.The pontiff met with South S...
The Pope has stated "A Christian cannot be an anti-Semite". Pope Francis was speaking after receiving a delegation from the ancient community of Mountain Jews to discuss Holocaust anniversaries and t...
Pope Francis has said access to clean water is a human right and that it is "enormously shameful" that millions of people get sick and die each year for lack of In a message to a water management con...
Pope Francis has told churches they need to be better at welcoming people who are deaf and hard of hearing. The Pope was speaking on the World Day of the Deaf on Sunday and offered prayers for deaf...
The pope has told Europe that it is the only continent that can bring humanity together. Speaking to a group of Christian socialists from France Pope Francis said: "Europe is the only continent tha...
The Pope has called out the misuse of the crucifix. In a speech at St Peter's Square in the Vatican, Pope Francis said that the religious symbol should be "contemplated and understood", and "not be a...
Pope Francis has opened the Catholic Synod on the family in Rome. Speaking to bishops from around the world, he has stressed that marriage is a binding bond between a man and woman.Emphasisng the chu...
Pope Francis had a secret meeting with a Christian American county clerk who was jailed for repeatedly refusing to allow gay couples to marry, her lawyer has cl Kim Davis from Kentucky said she was r...
