Pope Francis will create 17 new cardinals from across the globe Saturday in a time-honoured ceremony, elevating them to an elite body that advises and elects popes.
Pope Francis on Friday asked an audience of homeless people to forgive those Christians who ‘look the other way.’
Pope Francis on Sunday declared revered nun Mother Teresa a saint in a canonisation mass at St Peter's square.
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 visits Armenia this weekend and will try to avoid reigniting a diplomatic dispute with Turkey after his branding...
US President Barack Obama, Pope Francis and Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday led global condemnation after a gunman went on the rampage at a gay nightclub in Florida ...
Pope Francis yesterday embraced the grand imam of Cairo’s Al Azhar Mosque at the Vatican in a historic encounter...
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.
Syrian refugees taken in by Pope Francis following his visit to the Greek island of Lesbos hailed the Pontiff as a “saviour” for offering them a new life.
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 will make a lightning trip to the Greek island of Lesbos on April 16, the Vatican said on Thursday, in a visit aimed at supporting refugees and drawing attention to the front line of Europe's migrant crisis.
Pope Francis on Tuesday formally approved sainthood for Mother Teresa and set September 4 as the date for her canonisation.
