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Nuns, ex-Satanic priest among 7 new saints created by Pope Leo
AFP, Published on 19/10/2025
» VATICAN CITY - Bells rang out Sunday over St Peter's Square as Pope Leo XIV created seven new saints, including the first from Papua New Guinea, an archbishop killed in the Armenian genocide and a Venezuelan "doctor of the poor".
Cassocks competition: whose outfit will new pope wear?
AFP, Published on 05/05/2025
» ROME - For decades, one Rome tailor has been making the white cassock new popes don immediately after election -- but this conclave it has competition.
French PM under growing pressure over Catholic school abuse claims
AFP, Published on 22/02/2025
» PAU (FRANCE) - France's prime minister was under increasing pressure Friday after a former teacher at a Catholic school claimed Francois Bayrou was aware of claims of sexual abuse there in the 1990s but did not act on them.
Pope draws 200,000 to Portugal's Fatima shrine
AFP, Published on 05/08/2023
» FATIMA, Portugal: Around 200,000 pilgrims flooded the shrine of Fatima in Portugal on Saturday to attend a service held by Pope Francis at one of Catholicism's most revered sites devoted to the Virgin Mary.
Pope presides Way of Cross ceremony at youth festival
AFP, Published on 05/08/2023
» LISBON - Pope Francis presided over a Way of the Cross reenactment at a Lisbon park on Friday before hundreds of thousands of flag-waving pilgrims, part of a global Catholic youth festival.
Pope presides Way of Cross ceremony at youth festival
AFP, Published on 05/08/2023
» LISBON - Pope Francis presided over a Way of the Cross reenactment at a Lisbon park on Friday before hundreds of thousands of flag-waving pilgrims, part of a global Catholic youth festival.
Former pope Benedict dies at 95
Published on 31/12/2022
» ROME: Former pope Benedict, the first pontiff in 600 years to resign, has died at the age of 95 in the Vatican, a spokesman for the Holy See said on Saturday.
Life goes on as Ukraine army holds war weddings
AFP, Published on 13/06/2022
» DRUZHKIVKA, Ukraine: Air raid sirens wailed and one of the brides wore camouflage trousers as the Ukrainian army took a break from frontline fighting in the east to hold a double wedding Sunday.
Risking jail and Church ire, Russian priests condemn Ukraine conflict
AFP, Published on 01/05/2022
» Father Georgy Edelshtein is keen to debate those who disagree with his opposition to Russia's military campaign in Ukraine.
Blast rips new district to shreds as war reaches into Kyiv
AFP, Published on 22/03/2022
» KYIV - The six corpses lie in a row beneath an awning plastered with garish advertising company logos.