Monday, 6 December 2021 (YJC)_ During a visit to Greece, Pope Francis apologized for the historic mistakes of Catholics in sowing discord with the Orthodox Church.
Monday, 08 March 2021_Iran says the recent visit by Pope Francis to Iraq, where he met with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, shows security has returned to the Arab country, thanks to "the bravery of the Iraqi people and the wisdom of its religious leadership".
Monday, 30 November 2020_Pope Francis has appointed several new cardinals, including the first African-American, to hold the high rank in the Catholic Church, while advising them against using their titles for corrupt, personal gains.
TEHRAN, Nov 28_Pope Francis announced on Tuesday he would declare the use and possession of nuclear weapons "immoral" in the Catholic Church's official manual, after visiting the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki where atomic bombs were dropped during World War II.
TEHRAN, Nov 23_Pope Francis left Thailand on Saturday after a three-day visit and headed to Japan, where he is to visit the ground zeros of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as part of his campaign against nuclear weapons.
TEHRAN, Sept 04 -Pope Francis heads to Mozambique on Wednesday to encourage the country’s fragile peace, starting a three-nation African tour where climate change, poverty and corruption will also be high on the agenda.
TEHRAN, Sept 01 -Pope Francis arrived late for his weekly address in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, explaining that he had been stuck in an elevator in the Vatican for 25 minutes and had to be freed by firefighters.
TEHRAN, Jul 8 -Pope Francis said prayers on Sunday for victims of the bombing of a migrant center in Libya last week and called for concerted action to create extensive humanitarian corridors to prevent similar tragedies.
TEHRAN, May 31 - Pope Francis is heading to Romania for a three-day, cross-country pilgrimage that in many ways is completing the 1999 trip by St. John Paul II that marked the first-ever papal visit to a majority Orthodox country.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Pope Francis said on Monday the plight of suffering immigrants and refugees was "the cross of humanity," taking up their case for the second consecutive day during a visit to Bulgaria that has put him at odds with the government.
TEHRAN, May 05 - Pope Francis urged European leaders on Sunday to address wealth inequality and low birth rates which he said had created an "ice curtain" between Europe's richer and poorer states and was fuelling emigration.
TEHRAN, Apr 21 - Pope Francis on Sunday condemned attacks that killed at least 138 people in three churches and four hotels in Sri Lanka as "such cruel violence" and said he was close to the Christian community, hit while celebrating Easter.
TEHRAN, Apr 06 - Pope Francis has blamed Europe and the United States for selling weapons in war zones, fueling conflicts and causing victims in Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan.
TEHRAN, Mar30-Pope Francis said on Saturday that problems of migration would never be resolved by physical barriers but instead required social justice and correcting the world’s economic imbalances.
TEHRAN, Mar 20 - The Muslim burial ceremony for the victims of the recent terrorist attacks targeting two mosques in New Zealand has begun with the funeral two members of a Syrian family, who had fled war back home and taken refuge in the city of Christchurch.
TEHRAN, Feb 03 - Pope Francis heads to the UAE Sunday for the first ever papal visit to the Arabian Peninsula where he will hold an open-air mass for tens of thousands of Catholics.
TEHRAN, Jan 27-Pope Francis said on Saturday the Roman Catholic Church was weary and “wounded by her own sin,” in an apparent reference to the global sexual abuse crisis.
TEHRAN, December 26 -In his annual Christmas message, Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, has urged people to overcome their differences and find political solutions to conflicts, especially those gripping the Middle East region.