Pope Francis will travel in early September to Mongolia – a country with few Catholic faithful but that is strategically significant for the Roman Catholic Church due to its proximity to China. The Vatican announced the trip (31 August to…
Pope Francis meets movie director Martin Scorsese as pontiff resumes audiences after fever
Pope Francis has met film director Martin Scorsese as the pontiff resumed holding audiences after a bout of fever forced him to cancel engagements this week. A Vatican schedule of his appointments for Saturday showed the 86-year-old pontiff had received…
Zelensky due in Rome Saturday
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will be welcomed in Rome by Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella on Saturday, Italy’s presidential palace said. Zelensky is also expected to meet Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Pope Francis during his visit. Ever since she…
Pope Francis: Easter Mass brings relief to public after pontiff’s illness
In the early hours on a stunning Easter morning in Vatican City, thousands of people from around the world waited to be let into St Peter’s Square for Pope Francis’ Mass. Once access was opened, nuns and priests were among…
Pope Francis leads Palm Sunday Mass after hospital stay
Bundled in a long, white coat and battling a hoarse voice, Pope Francis presided over Mass in St. Peter’s Square before tens of thousands of faithful on Palm Sunday, a day after he left a Rome hospital where he was…
*Taraba Monarch: I just found corpses of my kidnapped wives, children (DailyTrust)*16-year-old female student wins N7.5m Interswitch national science contest (Tribune)
Taraba Monarch: I just found corpses of my kidnapped wives, children (DailyTrust) The Chief of Mutumbiyu Justices Chiefdom in Taraba State, Justice Sani Muhammed (rtd), says the decomposed bodies of his two abducted wives and five children have been found.…
Pope Francis leaves on 6-day trip to DR Congo, South Sudan
Pope Francis on Tuesday departed the Vatican on for his first international trip this year a six-day visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan. The pontiff’s plane took off in the morning from Rome. His first…
Pope Francis says homosexuality is ‘not a crime’ but remains a ‘sin’ among Catholic doctrine
Pope Francis said during an interview Tuesday homosexual relations are “not a crime” and called laws that penalize homosexuality “unjust.” At the Vatican, the Pontiff said that God loves everyone as they are and called on Catholics to do more…
Thousands pour into St Peter’s Square for funeral of Benedict XVI
Mourners have poured into Saint Peter’s Square for the funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI to pay their final respects to the German theologian and attend a rare requiem mass for a dead pontiff presided over by a living one.…
Pope Francis asks for prayers for his predecessor Pope Benedict and says he is ‘very sick’
Pope Francis has said his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI is “very sick” and asked the faithful to pray for the retired pontiff so God will comfort him “to the very end”. Francis did not elaborate on Benedict’s condition as he…