Pope Francis flew towards Athens on Saturday for the first visit by a pontiff in two decades, with the Greek capital under high security over anti-papal sentiment among Orthodox hardliners.

For the first time in two decades, Pope Francis flies to Athens for papal visit

Pope Francis arrived in Cyprus on Thursday, beginning a five-day trip that would also bring him to Greece and its island of Lesbos, where in 2016 he made a defining visit to refugees living in horrid conditions and brought some back to Rome on his plane.

Pope Francis heads to Cyprus, aiming to highlight plight of migrants

Vatican’s Pope Francis has thanked journalists from around the world for their helping uncover the sexual abuse scandals of the Roman Catholic Church. The Pope has appreciated and thanked the journalists for carrying on their "mission" of journalism.

Pope Francis thanks journalists for exposing sexual abuse cases

Pope Francis on Sunday offered his prayers to the victims of a fuel tanker blast in Sierra Leone that killed at least 99 people and injured more than 100. The accident happened in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, late on Friday, when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, local authorities said.

Pope prays for conflict hit Ethiopia and victims of Sierra Leone blast

Pope Francis appointed a woman Thursday to head up the governorate of the Vatican, as he forges ahead with a mission to achieve greater gender equality in the Church.

Pope names Raffaella Petrini as first woman to head Vatican governorate

According to media reports on Monday, the South Korean administration urged North Korea to accept Pope Francis' invitation to visit the nation, claiming that it would help to improve regional peace.

South Korea urges Kim Jong-un to accept proposal for Pope's visit to North Korea

After US President Joe Biden met Pope Francis, the former gave an unusual answer on Friday on being asked whether abortion was discussed in their 90-minute meeting at the Vatican.

After meeting with pope, US President Joe Biden gives bizarre answer on abortion

Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on Pope Francis at the Vatican on Saturday and invited the head of the Catholic Church to visit India. According to officials, the prime minister's meeting with the pope lasted for more than an hour.

At historic meeting, PM Modi invites Pope Francis to visit India

When the Pope talks to his audience, all eyes are on him. However, this time, a small boy took the limelight as he tried to steal from the leader. A young boy, who is reported to be 10-years-old, was seated next to the Pope during one of his usual address with his followers.

Boy steals the show by trying to take Pope's skull cap

Pope Francis on Sunday condemned recent attacks in Norway, Afghanistan and Britain, in an apparent reference to the stabbing death of parliamentarian David Amess.

Pope condemns attacks in Norway, Afghanistan and Britain

Health workers have a non-negotiable right to exercise conscientious objection by refusing to participate in an abortion, Pope Francis said on Thursday, calling the procedure "murder".

Pope says health workers' conscientious objection to abortion non-negotiable

Pope Francis warned on Monday warned that the world leaders meeting later this month for a UN climate summit must offer solutions to an "unprecedented ecological crisis.

COP26 must address 'unprecedented' climate crisis, Pope Francis warns

Pope Francis offered his prayers to victims of a prison riot at one of Ecuador's largest prisons that killed 118 inmates. "I am very saddened by what has happened in recent days in the prison of Guayaquil, in Ecuador, where a terrible outbreak of violence between inmates belonging to rival gangs has killed more than 100 people and injured many", Francis told the gathered people in St.

Pope Francis offers prayers for the victims of Ecuador's worst-ever prison riot

Pope Francis used his short time in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday to urge his bishops to embrace diversity and send a message to the country’s hard-right, anti-migrant leader, Prime Minister Viktor Orban, that God is not a strongman who silences enemies and that religious roots, while vital for a country, also allow it to open up and extend “its arms toward everyone.

In Orban’s Hungary, pope urges bishops to embrace diversity

Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary portrays himself as the defender of Christian Europe against migrants and multiculturalism. After years of his weakening of democratic institutions, the far-right strongman has prepared for coming elections in Catholic-majority Hungary by strengthening his links to Catholic traditionalists in Europe and the United States.

Meeting Hungary’s strongman, Pope treads a fine line with an embattled leader

Pope Francis made a suggestion on Sunday and told the faithful to take a break and switch off from the stresses of modern life. This was his first public appearance post his hospitalisation.

Learn to switch off, says Pope Francis after successful surgery

Pope Francis greeted supporters and led prayers on Sunday from 10th floor balcony of his hospital. He is recovering from colon surgery. "I am glad to be able to keep the Sunday Angelus appointment, even here" at the hospital, he said.

Pope Francis leads prayers from hospital

Pope Francis' recovery from colon surgery at a Rome hospital continues to be 'regular and satisfactory', the Vatican said on Wednesday. Spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a statement that the 84-year-old pope was eating regularly and that he was no longer receiving medication intravenously.

Pope's post-operative condition continues satisfactorily, says Vatican

After a successful colon operation, Pope Francis is now recovering in hospital and will stay under observation at least for the next week. "A stay of about seven days is expected, barring complications," Vatican spokesman, Matteo Bruni said.

Vatican: Pope Francis recovering but will remain in hospital for 7 days

Pope Francis is doing well following intestinal surgery, the Vatican said on Sunday after the 84-year-old pontiff was hospitalised for the first time since his election in 2013.

Pope doing well after intestinal surgery, says Vatican

Pope Francis was admitted to a Rome hospital on Sunday afternoon for "scheduled surgery" on his colon later in the day, the Vatican said. Spokesman Matteo Bruni said the pope, 84, was suffering from "symptomatic diverticular stenosis" of the colon, a condition that can cause recurrent abdominal pain, bloating and changes in bowel habits.

Pope Francis in hospital for 'scheduled surgery' on colon

On Sunday, in the first face to face meeting of the United States with the new Israeli government, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet Israel's new top diplomat Yair Lapid in Rome.

US Blinken to meet Israel's top diplomat Lapid amid Iran moves

The last time a US secretary of state visited the Vatican, the diplomatic sparks flew and Pope Francis declined to receive Mike Pompeo. When Antony Blinken meets the pope and top Vatican officials on Monday, the new secretary of state's visit will put relations between Washington and Holy See on a new footing.

Blinken visit to pope will reset US-Vatican ties after Trump years

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday, he has asked the pope to come to Canada to apologise for the Catholic Church's role running residential schools for indigenous children, after nearly 1,000 bodies were found in two mass graves.

Trudeau says Pope should apologise on Canadian soil for church's role in residential schools

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