Christians in Sudan request prayer against continued efforts to take over church property. This week, the police and an armed mob occupied part of the Sudan Pre Middle East Concern, which is a group ...
The Pope has come out against the legalisation of drugs such as cannabis. Francis told members of a drug conference in Rome attempts to sell it for recreational use are "highly questionable".Before b...
Pope Francis has announced changes to help Catholics remarry by speeding up the annulment process. At present the Church teaches that Catholics can only remarry if their first marriage is declared in...
A video of Pope Francis stopping his official motorcade on the middle of a road in Italy to bless a disabled girl has gone viral. The footage of the Holy Father getting out of his car to speak and pr...
Pope Francis has suggest woman in countries hit by the Zika virus could use contraception. Using condoms to avoid pregnancy can be acceptable in difficult situations, he said during a press conferenc...
Pope Francis is summoning leading bishops from around the world for a February summit to discuss how to prevent sexual abuse by priests. The summit involving the presidents of every bishops conferenc...
Pope Francis has voiced support for a French cardinal who has faced allegations of covering up cases of paedophile priests in his Lyon parish, saying he should The pontiff, speaking to the French Ca...
Pope Francis has condemned European countries for not doing enough to take care of refugees. He was speaking after around 668 migrants and refugees were saved from boats in the Mediterranean off Liby...
The Pope has hit out at the Italian mafia, telling them that despite the fact many go to church and worship openly, they cannot call themselves Christians becau Pope Francis used his weekly general a...
Pope Francis has been addressing bishops from Mozambique in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. According to Italian newspaper Zenit, the Pope told them over the weekend to care for and defend the ...
The Pope has urged Catholic nuns to get out and meet the public, smile more and feed the needy. According to the Times, Francis also suggested cloistered nuns should spend half an hour talking to peo...
Pope Francis has told the head of the Coptic Church that the church is "united by the ecumenism of blood". He sent a message to Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria after they met in Rome two years ago.The...
The Pope has urged parents to not put-off baptising their children because of the "excuse...he or she is unable to understand." Addressing thousands of pilgrims gathered in St Peter's Square for the ...
The Pope has called for every European parish and religious community to take in one refugee family each, in a gesture of solidarity. Francis also announced two parishes in the Vatican will offer a h...
The Pope has called for tech giants to take responsibility to prevent children's easy access to pornography and other harmful content online. Speaking at the Promoting Digital Child Dignity conferenc...
The Pope has called on the world's religious and political leaders to work harder to bring about peace, in an impassioned speech at the Vatican in the wake of t Speaking at the Vatican on Monday befo...
Pope Francis has told young Catholics to take risks in order to help boost membership of the Catholic Church. At a six-day conference in Rome with 300 youth in attendance he said: "Be brave in these ...
The US and Cuba presidents have both thanked Pope Francis for his help improving relations between the countries. The pontiff played a key role in bringing them together, after he sent private letter...
Pope Francis has thanked Jordan for bringing displaced Christians and other refugees from Iraq into its country, a year since the exodus began. It was this time last year that at least hundreds of th...
Pope Francis has given a number of priests in southern Nigeria a 30-day ultimatum to obey him by accepting the nomination of a bishop - or face being suspended The row began when Clergymen in the di...
