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Money and war positions are given more importance than human life itself,” the pope said. Pope Francis engages in dialogue with young Ukrainians on Feb. 1, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.) ...

Best known for kung fu, the monks are the custodians of Zen Buddhism in China. The meeting with the pontiff comes a few days after their temple in Henan held a world conference on meditation and ...

"The meeting plan has been finalized by the protocol of the Holy See of the Vatican," said Basarah in his written statement, Saturday, February 1, 2025. Megawati is in the same forum as Pope Francis.

Charles will be the first monarch in a decade to meet ... and Pope Francis have met on two other other occasions, most recently in 2019 when the then Prince of Wales visited the Vatican.

Pope Francis ... did not meet the conditions required to make it valid according to Church law. Pope Francis blesses a baby during a meeting with the Roman Rota in the Vatican’s Clementine ...

Pope Francis told a group of children receiving treatment for cancer in Poland they are “witnesses of hope” to those around them. During a Jan. 10 audience at the Vatican, the pope greeted ...

Biden was expected to meet Pope Francis at the Vatican on Friday for the last time during his presidency but had to cancel to address the fires in California. This year is an important anniversary ...

The fifth President of the Republic of Indonesia, Megawati Soekarnoputri (center), accompanied by her daughter who is also the Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Puan Maharani (right) ...

It was a privilege for a delegation from Sorrento Calcio, with President Giuseppe Cappiello, Vice President Michele Mauro, and General Manager Benito Starace, to meet Pope Francis at the Vatican ...