(Vatican 2014-12-05) Pope Francis has sent a Message to the organizers and participants in the Festival of the Family taking place on the shore of Lake Garda in north-central Italy on Friday. “The future of…

La polémique concernant le détournement de la visite du pape à son profit par le régime autoritaire de Colombo, actuellement en pleine campagne électorale, bat aujourd'hui son plein au Sri Lanka, comme le soulignait Eglises…

(Vatican 2014-12-03 ) Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin presides on Wednesday at a special Mass in the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls to mark the 100th anniversary of the re-establishment of…

Vatican City, 2 December 2014 (VIS) – The following is the full text of the Joint Declaration of Religious Leaders against Modern Slavery

“We, the undersigned, are gathered here today for a historic initiative to…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Pope Francis and the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians demanded an end to the persecution of religious minorities in Syria and Iraq on Sunday and called for a "constructive dialogue"…

(Vatican 2014-11-28) Speaking on the first day of his visit to Turkey, Pope Francis condemned the “barbaric violence” waged by fundamentalists in Iraq and Syria against entire communities, especially Christians and Yazidis, because of their…

(Vatican 2014-11-28) What is the main significance and chief highlights of Pope Francis’s three day pastoral visit to Turkey this week? And what message is he likely to bring to the Christian and Muslim communities…

(Vatican 2014-11-28) Pope Francis has urged more interreligious dialogue to help bring peace and end all forms of "fundamentalism,terrorism and irrational fears." His appeal came in a speech to Turkey’s President Erdogan and other top…

Une réunion qui a rassemblé quelque 70 personnes, le 26 novembre dernier, au cœur de la capitale du Vietnam pourrait bien, malgré cette modeste affluence, ouvrir une brèche dans le contrôle sévère exercé par les…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — When a pope last visited Turkey — Benedict XVI in 2006 — Muslim-Catholic tensions were so high that the Vatican added a stop at Istanbul's famed Blue Mosque at the last…