Rome, May 1 (IANS/DPA) Pope Francis on Wednesday denounced the global arms industry, saying it was "terrible to make money from death.""Unfortunately, today the investments that bring the greatest return are ar

Dubai, December 3 (IANS) His Holiness Pope Francis and the the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed Al-Tayeb have signed a declaration of support for urgent climate action, giving video addresses to the UN Climate Cha

Seoul, August 26 (IANS) Pope Francis says he is willing to visit North Korea, should the country's leaders ever invite him, he told a South Korean broadcaster in an interview released on Friday. "I

Aboard The Papal Plane, July 30 (AP) Pope Francis acknowledged Saturday that he can no longer travel like he used to because of his strained knee ligaments, saying his weeklong Canadian pilgrimage was a bit of

Waterloo (Canada), Jul 26 (The Conversation/PTI) Pope Francis fulfilled the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) Call to Action No. 58 by offering an apology, in Canada, to the survivors of Indian Re

Alberta (Canada), July 25 (AP) Thousands of Indigenous people converged on Monday on the small Alberta prairie community of Maskwacis to hear a long-awaited apology from Pope Francis for generations of abuse an

Vatican City, July 24 (AP) Pope Francis began a fraught visit to Canada on Sunday to apologise to Indigenous peoples for abuses by missionaries at residential schools, a key step in the Catholic Church's ef

Vatican City, July 23 (AP) Pope Francis' trip to Canada to apologise for the horrors of church-run Indigenous residential schools marks a radical rethink of the Catholic Church's missionary legacy, spur

Rome, March 25 (AP) Pope Francis is on Friday presiding over a special prayer for Ukraine that harks back to a century-old apocalyptic prophesy about peace and Russia that was sparked by purported visions of th

Vatican City, October 29 (AP): Pope Francis issued an urgent appeal on Friday to world leaders ahead of the UN climate conference to take radical decisions to protect the environment and prioritise the common g

Vatican City, October 6 (AP): Pope Francis expressed shame for himself and the Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday for the scale of child sexual abuse within the church in France and acknowledged failures in put

Vatican City, October 4 (AP): Pope Francis and dozens of religious leaders on Monday signed a joint appeal to governments to commit to ambitious targets at the upcoming UN climate conference, while promising to

Rome, September 21 (AP): Pope Francis has acknowledged his increasingly vocal conservative critics, saying their nasty comments were the work of the devil and adding that some wanted me dead after his recent in

BY SAEED NAQVI IANS | March 21 Pardon my Lucknow chauvinism, but the benighted city once had intimate links with the centre of Shia Islam, Najaf, in Iraq, which Pope Francis visited early March in what must

Najaf (Iraq), March 6 (AP): Pope Francis met with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, one of the most senior clerics in Shiite Islam, in Iraq's holy city of Najaf on Saturday to deliver a message of peaceful co

Rome, February 8 (AP): Pope Francis urged governments on Monday to use the coronavirus crisis as a revolutionary opportunity to create a world that is more economically and environmentally just and where basic

Vatican City, January 14 (AP): The Vatican has confirmed Pope Francis received the first shot of the coronavirus vaccine on Thursday. No photos of the 84-yer-old pontiff receiving the shot have been released

VATICAN CITY, November 29 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Saturday installed 13 new cardinals, including the first African-American to hold the high rank, further expanding the pontiff's impact on the group tha

VATICAN CITY, October 29 (Reuters): Pope Francis condemned as "savage" an attack in which three people were killed at a church in France on Thursday, and the Vatican said terrorism and violence w

VATICAN CITY, October 25 (Reuters): Pope Francis named 13 new Roman Catholic cardinals on Sunday, including nine who are eligible to enter a conclave to elect his successor after his death or resignat