VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, urged the international community to help Pakistan as tens of thousands are currently at the mercy of the rainy season, which wreaked havoc across the country. Pope urged aid during his visit to the ...

ABU DHABI: Pope Francis, the first leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics to visit the Arabian Peninsula, will attend an interfaith meeting in the UAE on Monday as part of his outreach to Muslims. The pope’s highly publicized 48-hour visit to the United Arab Emirates will also include an ...

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis will become the first Pope in history to visit the Arabian Peninsula when he makes an apostolic journey to the United Arab Emirates next year, the Vatican News announced. Thousands of people from across the UAE are readying themselves for Pope Francis’s landmark ...

ROME - Pope Francis announced on Sunday that he will hold a meeting of the Church's top council to appoint 14 new cardinals next month, including from Iraq, Pakistan, Madagascar and Japan. In the event of a conclave of cardinals to name a new pope, 11 of the new 14 being under 80 years of age ...

ISLAMABAD - * A Pakistani Christian whose selfie with the Pope has gone viral has spoken of his “heartache” at the treatment of minorities in Pakistan, and said the pontiff told him he was praying for peace.* Daniel Bashir, a 26-year-old doctor in Karachi, told AFP he took the selfie with the ...

VATICAN- A Pakistani Christian man named Daniel Bashir recently presented Pope Francis with a traditional Sindhi Ajrak and the Bishop of Rome gladly accepted his gift. The guy, who presented the Ajrak to the Pope is Daniel who is a member of the Jesus Youth of St. Paul’s Parish Mehmoodabad ...

SANTIAGO: Almost 80 Roman Catholic clergy have been accused of sexually abusing children in Chile since 2000, a US-based monitoring group said Wednesday ahead of a visit to the country next week by Pope Francis. Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, has spoken out against such abuse, which ...

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis in his year-end message said that 2017 had been marred by war, lies and injustice, and he urged people to take responsibility for their actions. At his last public event of the year, an evening vespers service in St. Peter’s Basilica, the pontiff said that humanity ...

Pope Francis has called for the status quo of Jerusalem to be respected to prevail to avoid further conflict, hours before the expected announcement that the United States is recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital.The pope made the appeal during his weekly audience in Vatican city after speaking ...

Pope Francis says Myanmar should commit to respect for human rights.In his speech during a meeting with members of the civil society and diplomatic corps in Naypyitaw he said Myanmar is suffering from civil conflict and hostilities that have lasted all too long and created deep divisions.He said ...