TEHRAN, January 16 - Pope Francis on Tuesday begged the forgiveness of Chileans for the "irreparable damage" done to children who were sexually abused by priests.
TEHRAN, January 1 - Pope Francis described migrants and refugees as the world's "weakest and most needy" on Monday, using his traditional New Year's address to "give voice" to people he has urged leaders to do more to help.
TEHRAN, December 25 - Pope Francis used his Christmas message on Monday to call for a negotiated two-state solution to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after U.S. President Donald Trump stoked regional tensions with his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s ‘capital’.
TEHRAN, December 25 -Pope Francis used his Christmas message on Monday to call for a negotiated two-state solution to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after U.S. President Donald Trump stoked regional tensions with his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
TEHRAN, December 10 - Pope Francis on Sunday renewed a call for "wisdom and prudence" over US President Donald Trump's controversial decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's ‘capital’, which has sparked protests and clashes.
While Myanmar’s government and extremist Buddhists have committed shocking crimes against Muslims in Rohingya, Pope Francis refused to discuss crisis of Rohingya's Muslims during his recent visit to Myanmar.
TEHRAN, November 28 - Pope Francis, who is on a historic visit to Myanmar, has called for “justice” and respect for the human rights of ethnic groups, a thinly-veiled reference to the minority Muslim Rohingya who have been facing state-sponsored violence in the Southeast Asian country.
TEHRAN, November 27 - Pope Francis is in Myanmar for talks with its leaders against the backdrop of a government-backed ethnic cleansing campaign underway against the country’s minority Rohingya Muslims.
TEHRAN, November 22 - Pope Francis will pay his first visit to the Baltic states next year, when Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania mark 100 years since they gained independence from Russia, three Baltic presidents said Wednesday.
TEHRAN, November 9- Pope Francis apparently dislikes the way pilgrims and even priests and bishops take pictures with their smartphones during prayers. He urged them to put down their devices as Mass is a holy occasion and “not a show.”
TEHRAN, November 8 - Myanmar's senior Catholic priest Cardinal Charles Maung Bo on Wednesday urged Pope Francis to avoid using the term "Rohingya" during an upcoming visit, when he is expected to raise the humanitarian crisis the Muslim minority faces.
TEHRAN, November 3 - An online petition, launched in a bid to save the cross on a monument to a Polish pontiff in a Breton town, has garnered more than 38,000 signatures. It followed a French court ordering the cross removed, since it goes against a national secularism law.
TEHRAN, November 3 - Pope Francis has said the world is moving forcefully towards ever bigger wars, speaking at a Mass amid his push to prevent nuclear conflict.
TEHRAN, May 30, YJC -Randy Short, with the Black Autonomy Network Community Organization from Washington, says he doubts Pope Francis’ agreement to apologize for the role of the Catholic Church in Canada’s school system, where indigenous children were abused for decades.
TEHRAN, May 11, YJC - Hunger striking Palestinian prisoners have written to Pope Francis, urging the pontiff to immediately take a stance against the Israeli regime with regard to the ordeals of Palestinian inmates.
TEHRAN, April 16, YJC - Pope Francis has condemned a recent bomb attack by Takfiri militants on a crowded bus convoy of Shia Muslim evacuees outside the Syrian city of Aleppo.
TEHRAN, March 29, YJC - Pope Francis on Wednesday said it was "imperative and urgent" to protect civilians in Iraq, speaking as U.S. investigators looked into who caused an explosion in Mosul that killed scores of non-combatants.
Managers who close businesses, shut factories or restructure firms without fully considering the impact on workers and their families are committing a "very grave sin", Pope Francis said on Wednesday.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani offered Pope Francis Christmas greetings, hoping for interaction among followers of all divine religions and the establishment of peace and justice in the world in the New Year.
VATICAN CITY, Nov 23, 2014 (AFP) - Pope Francis is expected to take Europe to task over racial and religious intolerance during a visit to the European parliament Tuesday, as the crisis-hit continent battles with growing populism and the spectre of radicalisation.