Pope Francis has issued a challenge to world leaders to do more for the protection of refugees and migrants. The Vatican has made a roadmap on how governments should approach the issue entitled Respo...
Pope Francis will reportedly chew on coca leaves containing a small amount of the drug cocaine when he visits Bolivia next month. According to a government minister the Pope will visit La Paz, the ca...
This weekend Pope Francis is expected to deliver a message of peace to Bosnia and renew calls for reconciliation in the country. According to the DPA International news agency the motto of the Holy F...
Pope Francis has said the Catholic Church is "aware of a greater urgency" to be more welcoming to divorced people. In his weekly general audience the pontiff said divorced and re-married Catholics ha...
Women hoping to one-day serve as clergy in the Catholic Church have been given fresh hope as Pope Francis has apparently said he is open to exploring the feasib Catholic news sources say the Pontiff ...
Pope Francis has agreed to speed up the path to sainthood for Fr Jacques Hamel, the Catholic priest murdered by Islamic State militants in his Normandy church i Usually the Vatican has a five-year br...
Pope Francis will host bishops from Venezuela later this week as political unrest in the South American county continues into its third month. The pontiff will host the Presidential Council of the Ep...
Pope Francis is due to continue his visit to Mexico by holding Mass in a city riddled with drug violence, gangland-style executions and kidnappings. Mexico: - The world's largest Spanish-speaking Cat...
Pope Francis is going to make two visits this year to the troubled Caucasus region, which straddles the border between Europe and Asia, after a recent surge in Violence in the separatist area of Nag...
Pope Francis holds his first meeting with victims of sexual abuse by priests today. Six people - two each from Ireland, Britain and Germany - will attend the pontiff's private morning Mass in his Vat...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is to meet Pope Francis as he travels to Europe following a landmark nuclear deal. It's the leaders first trip abroad since the agreement with the EU and US.He'll tak...
The Pope will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin next week, the Vatican has confirmed. Francis will receive the politician on Wednesday after he attends a conference in Milan.It is expected the me...
The President of Slovakia will visit the Vatican on 8th April to meet Pope Francis and help build up relations between the country and the church. Andrej Kiska will also meet the Vatican's Secretary ...
Pope Francis has opened a steam train, the state's shortest railway, taking people through Vatican City. For the first time the railway will be open to the paying public.It runs along a 328 yard trac...
Pope Francis will show solidarity with people affected by the communist regime when he visits Albania later this month. The pontiff is to visit the country on 21st September during his first Europea...
Pope Francis is to raffle off the various gifts he's been given since taking on the papacy. It's reported posters have been put up around the Vatican advertising tickets for the draw priced at €10....
Pope Francis is due to release three white pigeons next month in a gesture created to show the spreading of his blessing and a call for peace. He will be answering the prayers of Catholic postman a...
Pope Francis met on Saturday with thousands of members of the Association of Italian Catholic Guides and Scouts (AGESCI) in St. Peter's Square. In his address, the Holy Father thanked the scouts, a...
Pope Francis is expected to speak publicly about murdered priest Fr Jacques Hamel during World Youth Day in Poland. He arrived in Poland on Wednesday to celebrate the event, with millions from all ...
Pope Francis has been told by Vatican doctors to eat less pasta after gaining weight since his election two years ago. The Catholic leader, 78, has put on weight in recent months which doctors have a...
