The Vatican hit back on Sunday at Turkey's depiction of Pope Francis as having a ‘crusader mentality’ after he used the word genocide to describe the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians a century ago.
Pope Francis will meet the spiritual leader of the world's Sunni Muslims in an unprecedented encounter at the Vatican on Monday, the pontiff's spokesman said Thursday.
Declaring ‘we are all migrants,’ Pope Francis on Saturday brought a message of hope to thousands of people facing expulsion from Greece as he slammed the world community for failing to end the wars fueling the crisis.
Pope Francis wants to take back to the Vatican a number of refugees after his landmark visit Saturday to the island of Lesbos, an official of Greece's state refugee coordination agency said.
Gunmen who killed at least 15 people in an old people's home in Yemen last week also kidnapped an Indian priest, as Pope Francis condemned the attack and the "indifference" of the world's reaction to it.
The first pope from Latin America met at the Vatican yesterday with the new leader of his homeland Argentina which is struggling with huge debt, poverty and drugs trafficking.
Pope Francis assailed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's views on US immigration as "not Christian", prompting the billionaire businessman to reprimand the religious leader as "disgraceful".
From the US border to the indigenous south, Pope Francis will visit some of the poorest and most violent corners of Mexico on his five-day trip and celebrates Mass on Saturday before an image of the country's patroness ...
Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill embraced and kissed on Friday in a historic meeting, uniting to issue a global appeal for the protection of Christians under assault in the Middle East.
