Taiwan has invited Pope Francis to visit, its President Tsai Ing-wen said, just weeks after the Vatican reached a milestone deal on the appointment of bishops with China, which claims the self-ruled island as its own.

Taiwan invites Pope Francis; no dates announced

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has invited Pope Francis to Pyongyang, South Korea's presidential Blue House said on Tuesday. South Korean President Moon Jae-in will deliver Kim's invitation when he meets Francis next week during his trip to Europe, Blue House spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom told a news briefing.

North Korea's Kim has invited Pope to Pyongyang, says South Korea

Pope Francis said today that he and not China will have final say in the appointment of bishops after the Vatican and China struck a historic deal last week ending decades of conflict.

Rome will appoint bishops in China, let it be clear: Pope Francis

Pope Francis has asked all the Chinese Catholics to reconcile while accepting that a historic deal with Beijing on nominating bishops may have caused "confusion" In a written message to Roman Catholics in China on Wednesday, the Pope said, "I now invite all Chinese Catholics to work towards reconciliation".

Pope calls on divided Chinese Catholics to reconcile

Pope also expressed that differences must be 'resolved peacefully and with a sense of responsibility'

Nicaragua protests: Pope calls for end to deadly violence

News brief: Big stories of the day

Last Sunday, the pope denounced a reported gas attack in Syria as an unjustifiable use of 'instruments of extermination'

Pope deeply disturbed by lack of efforts to bring peace to Syria

The Argentine pontiff has put the plight of people fleeing war, persecution and poverty at the heart of his five-year papacy, putting him at odds with a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment in many parts of the world

Pope hits out at critics of his pro-migrant policy

Pope spoke in Rome at the end of the traditional Good Friday Stations of the Cross procession

Pope 'ashamed' young to inherit fractured world

Vatican statement said Pope Francis had "accepted" Vigano's resignation

Vatican communications chief Vigano resigns over 'lettergate' scandal

'He was probably the dominant religious leader of his era,' said William Martin, author of A Prophet With Honor: The Billy Graham Story. 'No more than one or two popes, perhaps one or two other people, came close to what he achieved'

US: Billy Graham, 'preacher to presidents', dies at 99

Pope Francis has been under fire for remarks he made last month in Chile

Pope renews commission on sexual abuse, Vatican promises victims more say

'Fake news is a sign of intolerant and hypersensitive attitudes, and leads only to the spread of arrogance and hatred. That is the end result of untruth,' Francis said in the first document by a pope on the subject.

Pope condemns 'evil' of fake news and its use for political gain

'I wish to invite you to combat a plague across our Latin American region: the numerous cases of violent crimes against women, from beatings to rape to murder,' the visiting pontiff told thousands in Trujillo's main colonial-era square

Pope urges end to violence against women

While the pope said he was sorry for his choice of words, he also said he was certain that the prelate, Juan Barros, was innocent

Pope apologises for sexual abuse comments that 'wounded many'

During the day, Pope Francis held an open-air mass?in a park in central Dhaka

Watch: Pope Francis meets Rohingya refugees in Dhaka

Francis stepped from his vehicle and waited several minutes on the pavement, at times talking to the woman, until an ambulance arrived to take her away

Watch: Pope stops popemobile to comfort fallen horseback policewoman

At the individual greetings after the speech, Francis spent more time chatting with South Korea`s envoy, Jonghyun Jeong, than with most other diplomats.

In 'State of World' speech, Pope urges dialogue in Korea, nuclear ban

At his last public event of the year, an evening vespers service in St. Peter's Basilica, the pontiff said that humanity had "wasted and wounded" the year "in many ways with works of death, with lies and injustices".

Pope, in year-end message, says 2017 was marred by war and lies

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Delhi Metro's Magenta Line today

WION morning news brief, December 25, 2017

Francis was speaking at his Christmas eve mass at Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican

Pope pleads for migrants 'driven from their land' by leaders willing to shed 'innocent blood'

The pope's birthday this year falls on Gaudete Sunday, which the church marks as a moment of particular joy as celebrations for the birth of Jesus Christ approach

Inside Pope Francis' 81st birthday celebrations - cake, balloons, and pizzas!

WION Evening News brief, 4 December 2017

WION Evening News Brief, December 1, 2017

pope

Pope, News on Pope, stories on Pope, articles on Pope, Pope stories at Wion, Pope news, Pope latest news