(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis hast left the Albanian capital, Tirana, at the end of his one day visit to the former communist country. After a ...

(Vatican Radio) Briefing journalists at the end of a busy morning in Tirana, the Director of the Vatican Press Office  Father Federico Lombardi SJ, answered ...

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis said on Sunday that no one must consider themselves to be the “armour” of God while planning and carrying out acts ...

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis said on Sunday that peaceful coexistence and collaboration among followers of different religions is a precious gift to the country.

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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met on Friday morning with the mayor of Rome, Ignazio Marino, who was accompanied by a group of surgeons who specialize ...

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis held a special audience on Saturday for the bishops taking part in a training seminar held over the past two weeks ...

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis celebrated Mass in the chapel of the Santa Marta residence on Friday morning. In remarks to the gathered faithful following the ...

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis paid a private visit to the Basilica of St. Mary Major on Thursday afternoon, to pray for the success of his ...

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a message - through his Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin - to the II Catholic Social Days for Europe, currently ...

(Vatican Radio)  It was Sunday April 25th 1993, when Pope John Paul II went on a day visit to Albania. On this occasion he ...

(Vatican Radio) Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, says one of the Pope’s main reasons for visiting Albania on Sunday is to highlight ...

(Vatican Radio) The Holy See Delegation at the United Nations offices in Geneva on Wednesday said every attempt to marginalize indigenous peoples must be eliminated ...

(Vatican Radio) A meeting on Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium or the Joy of the Gospel gets underway this afternoon in the Vatican. The ...

Vatican City, 17 September 2014 (VIS) – This morning, the director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J., provided an update on ...

(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Fernando Filoni, the special envoy of Pope Francis to Iraq, has called the actions of the so-called Islamic State “Devil things.”

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(Vatican Radio) The Holy See's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva has warned that "a purely economic and functional approach toward elderly ...

(Vatican Radio) A conference on Social Finance takes place in Rome, Monday, focusing on Impact Investing for the poor.

Cardinal Peter Turkson, President of the ...

Vatican City, 19 September 2014 (VIS) – The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Ulrich Neymeyr, auxiliary of the diocese of Mainz, Federal Republic of Germany, as ...

Vatican City, 2014 (VIS) – The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Anthony Colin Fisher of Parramatta, Australia, as metropolitan archbishop of Sydney (area 1,264, population ...

Vatican City, 2014 (VIS) – The Holy Father has appointed Msgr. Marcus Stock as bishop of Leeds (area 5,033, population 2,068,000, Catholics 157 ...

(Vatican Radio) A tense calm has returned to the Russian capital Moscow where tens of thousands of people have demonstrated against fighting in neighbouring Ukraine ...

(Vatican Radio) Negotiators in peace talks have agreed to create a buffer zone to separate government troops and pro-Russian separatists and to withdraw heavy weapons ...

(Vatican Radio) The people of England and Scotland are looking ahead after the Scottish people voted against independence an historic referendum this week.

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The deaths of up to 500 migrants and refugees in an intentional boat-ramming in the Mediterranean Sea last week could be an act of mass ...

(Vatican Radio/agencies) The U.S. Senate late Thursday approved President Barack Obama’s plan to equip Syrian rebels to combat Islamic State militants.  The ...

(Vatican Radio/agencies) An emotional address by Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko to a joint meeting of Congress on Thursday. The Ukrainian leader renewed his ...

Singapore - "To overcome the challenge of secularization in Singapore that society is facing, and that touches believers of all religions, we have decided to restore ...

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has named Bishop Blase J. Cupich to succeed Cardinal Francis E. George as the archbishop of Chicago.

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(Vatican Radio) The bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), gathered at their annual synod, have issued a Synodal Letter to the faithful and ...

The leader of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka hopes the canonisation of Blessed Joseph Vaz as the ‎nation’s first saint will "encourage the ...

In Nigeria, the Catholic Archbishop of Jos, Ignatius Kaigama, has warned that the Islamic militant group Boko Haram is “gaining ground” all the time in ...

(Vatican Radio) Veronica Scarisbrick presents 'Vatican Weekend' for September 20, 2014 a half hour programme in which she shines the spotlight  on the forthcoming Apostolic ...