The approximately 840 inhabitants of the Vatican know what to do with wine. annually per person they drink 54 liters of which is two times more than the population of Italy. Translated works every resident of the Vatican consecrated ground each year 77 bottles away.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Has Monday paid a surprise visit to the Vatican City and talked to the pope. Francis recommended the controversial leader of the impoverished South American country, where almost everything is scarce or completely absent, to conduct an open dialogue to put an end to the deplorable condition.
Pope Francis on Tuesday paid a surprise visit to the Italian towns and villages devastated in August by an earthquake. Therefore nearly three hundred people died. The pastor brought solace to the people and prayed with them for the deceased. The Vatican kept his arrival secret until he Amatrice, one of the hardest hit cities, had arrived.
Only a few thousand Catholics on Saturday attended the papal Mass in the Georgian capital Tsiblisi. It was thus one of the worst areas of papal miss outside Italy. Pope Francis will visit Georgia this weekend hoping to improve relations with the Orthodox Church.
Pope Francis on Saturday in Vatican relatives of the victims of the terrorist attack on July 14 in Nice received in audience. About three hundred relatives visited the prelate.
Pope Francis on Wednesday announced a major reorganization of the Vatican. He thus comes the promise that he would clean up, which he did when he took office more than three years ago.
Mother Teresa, the nun who worked in the Indian city of Calcutta with the poor and sick, is elevated to holy Sunday. During a special ceremony in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City Pope Francis appoints the Albanian nun to saint.
Pope Francis Friday Rome paid a visit to a shelter for women who have been freed from sex slavery. Where the meeting took place exactly, the Vatican left in the middle.
The Italian authorities because of the terrorist threat in Europe tightened security at the Colosseum and St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Coliseum, the most visited attraction in the country, be put down extra roadblocks and carried out checks.
Pope Francis on Tuesday appointed the long-awaited committee to study whether women can be deacons and which can form a historic overture to another place for women in the Roman Catholic Church.
The Vatican on Tuesday the death of the elderly priest in the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray called,, barbaric act. 'Pope Francis is shocked by the news, as did a spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church in Rome know.
The court of the Vatican on Thursday a Spanish priest and convicted an Italian woman with leaking confidential documents to journalists. PR assistant Francesca Chaouqui from the Vatican and the priest Lucio Vallejo Balda played documents about wasting money in the Vatican by two journalists, who asked to book their findings.
The parents of American student Beau Solomon found dead in Rome to get a meeting with Pope Francis. Commissioned by the Vatican Wednesday.
In the trial against the leaking of confidential church documents Monday for the Vatican Tribunal against four of the five defendants prison sentences to three years and nine months demanded. The documents related to waste of money in the Vatican.
The resigned and his successor Pope Benedict Francis on Tuesday in the Vatican together celebrated a remarkable party: the 65-year-old priest Joseph Ratzinger. The late prelate was ordained in Freisingen a priest in 1951.
Prime Minister Rutte Wednesday met with Pope Francis at the Vatican.
Bishops 'negligent' when priests accused of abuse of minors, may be put out of their office. According to a papal decree issued Saturday.
Bishops 'negligent' when priests accused of abuse of minors, may be put out of their office. According to a papal decree issued Saturday.
Egypt's grand imam Ahmad al-Tayyb Monday paid a visit to Pope Francis. The historic meeting of the two religious leaders,, a message against terrorism, '' the pope said after the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
Alternative for Germany, Cardinal Karl Lehmann served hearty reply once it had spoken critically about the right-wing populists. The AfD has suggested that the church tax, but once should be abolished. After all, this tax is a result of an agreement that closed the church in 1933 with Hitler's regime.
The Bulgarian-American artist Christo supports Pope Francis in his efforts to raise money for the children in the impoverished Central African Republic. Christo is world famous as 'package artist' of buildings. This time he takes less: he has three hundred numbered and signed DVD boxes in semi-transparent plastic wrapped.
Police in Italy have arrested four people who want to join are suspected to have them in terrorist organization Islamic State. Three of them wanted to commit attacks, according to the authorities in Rome. The Israeli Embassy and the Vatican were potential targets.
The death toll from the earthquake that struck Ecuador Saturday, has risen to 272. The president of the South American country, Rafael Correa Delgado, has said this on the night of Sunday to Monday. It is feared that the death toll continues to rise. More than 2527 people were injured.
The death toll from the earthquake that struck Ecuador Saturday, has risen to 233. The president of the South American country, Rafael Correa Delgado, said this Sunday. It is feared that the death toll continues to rise.
The death toll from the earthquake that struck Ecuador Saturday will advance rapidly. The counter is now at 77 dead and more than five hundred wounded, said Vice President Jorge Glass. The government expects the death toll during Sunday continues to rise.
Pope Francis takes when he sat dangled from the Greek island of Lesbos ten applicants to Rome. The Greek state is about eight Syrians and two Afghans.
Pope Francis will be Saturday at his brief visit to Greece lunch with eight refugees. That happens in the refugee camp in Moria on Lesbos, where the asylum seekers are welcomed and registered immediately after arriving on the island.
Pope Francis will visit the Greek island of Lesbos refugees on April 16. The trip is intended to stabbing the migrants on the island a shot in the arm and another to settle on the island of the international attention, the Vatican announced Thursday.
A Spanish priest has confessed that he leaked confidential information from the Vatican to the press. He gave a journalist include 87 passwords that gave access to digital files and addresses within the Vatican, the BBC writes.
" An act of senseless violence and diabolical. " So Pope Francis responded, according to the BBC on Saturday the terrorist attack on a retirement home in Yemen, in which sixteen people were slain.
