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Cardinals to move into Vatican on eve of conclave
AFP, Published on 06/05/2025
» VATICAN CITY — Cardinals will on Tuesday begin moving into the Vatican accommodation where they will stay during the conclave, on the eve of their historic, secretive meeting to elect a new pope.
Wait for Vatican white smoke fires up social media
AFP, Published on 06/05/2025
» PARIS — Hype has been building on social media around the Catholic Church's secretive, centuries-old tradition of conclaves to elect a new pope, animating users from the White House on down.
ThaiBev Pays Tribute to the Late Pope Francis
Published on 26/04/2025
» His Excellency Archbishop Peter Bryan Wells, Apostolic Nuncio to the Kingdom of Thailand and Cambodia and Papal Representative to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, graciously received Mr Thapana Sirivadhanabhakdi, Chief Executive Officer of Thai Beverage Public Company Limited (ThaiBev), together with Professor Dr Apinan Poshyananda, Mr Dusit Khemasakchai, Mr Nitikorn Kraivixien, Mr Wirat Meksamphan, and Mr Patrick Horatanachai, who paid tribute to His Holiness Pope Francis at the Apostolic Nunciature in Thailand.
Vatican braces for huge crowds ahead of Pope's funeral
AFP, Published on 25/04/2025
» VATICAN CITY - The Vatican will make final preparations Friday for Pope Francis's funeral as the last of the huge crowds of mourners file through St Peter's Basilica to view his open coffin.
Chinese Catholics mourn Pope Francis, ponder Church's future
AFP, Published on 24/04/2025
» BAODING, China - In a small church tucked into a side street in northern China’s Hebei province, a group of around 10 people gathered for their weekly meeting, the day after Pope Francis died.
Forget the film: Vatican is preparing for the real 'Conclave'
Reuters, Published on 23/04/2025
» VATICAN CITY — As the Vatican prepares for the secret meeting of cardinals who will pick a successor to Pope Francis, forget - to some extent - what you may have learned from "Conclave", last year's hit movie depicting high-level power games and backstabbing among the red-robed clerics.
Kosovo's 'hidden Catholics' baptised as Pope Francis mourned
AFP, Published on 22/04/2025
» LLAPUSHNIK, Kosovo - Around the time the Vatican announced the death of Pope Francis, music floated out from a church in a Kosovo valley where dozens of Muslims were participating in an unusual ceremony: they were converting to Catholicism.
Recovering pope expected to delight crowds at Easter Sunday mass
AFP, Published on 20/04/2025
» VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis is expected to delight Catholics all over the world during Easter celebrations at the Vatican on Sunday, just weeks after he was fighting for his life in hospital while suffering from pneumonia.
Japan cult widow speaks 30 years after subway attack
AFP, Published on 17/03/2025
» OSAKA (JAPAN) - Only seven years into her marriage did Yuki Niimi first touch her husband -- at a morgue where she collected his body after he was executed and kissed him in a coffin.
Caution urged as ailing pope records slight improvement
AFP, Published on 27/02/2025
» VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, battling pneumonia in both lungs, slept well and is resting, the Vatican said Thursday, after revealing the 88-year-old's condition was slightly improving.