Pope Francis leaves Iraq after successful first-ever papal visit to the country Francis and his entourage were waved off by Iraq’s president at Baghdad airport He will fly back to Rome after covering more than 900 miles on his four-day trip The 84-year-old pontiff urged Iraqis to embrace diversity and reject extremism By Tim Stickings … Read more
Pope Francis leaves Iraq after successful first-ever papal visit to the country Francis and his entourage were waved off by Iraq’s president at Baghdad airport He will fly back to Rome after covering more than 900 miles on his four-day trip The 84-year-old pontiff urged Iraqis to embrace diversity and reject extremism By Tim Stickings … Read more
Pope Francis today held a historic meeting with the top Shia Islam cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on day two of his landmark visit to Iraq. The 84-year-old, who defied security fears and the pandemic to become the first pontiff to travel to the Gulf, met with the Grand Ayatollah in Najaf as his four-day trip … Read more
The Pope departs from Rome for historic first-ever visit by a pontiff to Iraq – and his most dangerous foreign journey since his election Pope Francis boarded flight at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport on Friday 84-year-old will arrive in Baghdad today, for the start of a three-day visit to Iraq It marks the first … Read more
The Pope departs from Rome for historic first-ever visit by a pontiff to Iraq – and his most dangerous foreign journey since his election By Reuters and Chris Pleasance for MailOnline Published: 07:11 GMT, 5 March 2021 | Updated: 07:19 GMT, 5 March 2021 Pope Francis left Rome on Friday to start a four-day trip … Read more
Pope removes conservative African cardinal who warned Islam would ‘invade the world’ after clash with Vatican Robert Sarah was a favourite among conservatives in the Catholic Church Some even hoped he could have succeeded Pope Francis as Pontiff eventually He frequently clashed with Pope Francis and resigned in accordance with law By Matt Drake For … Read more
Pope removes conservative African cardinal who warned Islam would ‘invade the world’ after clash with Vatican Robert Sarah was a favourite among conservatives in the Catholic Church Some even hoped he could have succeeded Pope Francis as Pontiff eventually He frequently clashed with Pope Francis and resigned in accordance with law By Matt Drake For … Read more
The Pope appoints two women to Vatican posts previously only ever held by men in Francis’s latest show of support for equality Pope Francis has appointed two women to posts previously held only by men One of them now has the right to vote in the all-male assemblies of bishops In 2020, Francis assigned six … Read more
The Pope warns warped ideologies could spark another genocide as he marks the Holocaust Francis called for remembrance in a speech marking Holocaust Memorial Day The Holocaust opened ‘a path of death, extermination and brutality’, he warned He said another genocide could happen at the hands of ‘warped ideologies’ By Associated Press and Emilia Jiang … Read more
Pope Francis will receive Covid-19 jab this week and declares ‘without a vaccine you are playing with life’ Vatican City is preparing to vaccinate its 450 residents this week with Pfizer jab Pope Francis said it is an ‘ethical duty’ for everyone to get inoculated He has been in favour of vaccines despite misgivings among … Read more