Tag: Pope Francis

ASIA Noreen Bibi, the first Pakistani woman sentenced to death for blasphemy in November 2010, thanked Pope Francis and all the churches praying for her and credited them with her survival after four-and-a-half years in prison.

POPE Francis warned against "administering a vaccine against faith" in a surprise plea for children of gay couples and divorced parents, the AFP is reporting.

FRANKLIN Graham recently opened up about his father, the pope and controversial social issues in an interview that aired Sunday. “I’ve never really been one...

POPE Francis, laying out his hopes Wednesday for the just-begun year, urged people to work for a world where everyone accepts each other's differences and where enemies recognize that they are brothers.

POPE Francis is shrugging off the “Marxist” label that some ultra-conservatives might apply to him because he frets that economic growth doesn’t always...

FIRST, the name “Francesco” leapfrogged to No. 1 on the list of the most popular baby names in Italy. Then, the city of Rome reported...

THE Vatican served tea and cucumber sandwiches on Tuesday as it launched its first cricket club, an initiative aimed at forging ties with teams of other faiths.

THE Vatican didn't say how long bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst would spend away from the diocese of Limburg and gave no information on where he would go or what he would do.

IN message published on Friday, Pope Francis took the rare step of personally expressing his “esteem and friendship” to the world’s Muslims as they prepare to celebrate the end of the Ramadan fast.

"Archbishop Tutu is respected in the Anglican Church and around the world but this time he has misfired and all Anglican Bishops from Africa, Asia and South America condemn his statement in no uncertain terms," he told Adom News.