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Two weeks before Donald Trumps visit to Pope Franciscus, an artist in Rome depicted the two kisses in a life-sized mural at the Vatican.

King Filip of Belgium gets US President Donald Trump on the coffee. Trump will arrive on Thursday, May 25th, Ascension Day, at 10.00. The Flemish broadcaster VRT reports that Prime Minister Charles Michel will be present and also the newly elected French president Emmanuel Macron would attend the audience.

Donald Trump will make his first foreign trip as American president later this month. He visits the Politico news site, relying on two sources in the White House, including the Vatican, Israel and Saudi Arabia. The Trumps tour also has a few other stops. On May 25, the former real estate agency was present at the NATO consultation in Brussels. One day later he attended the G7 summit in Sicily.

Pope Franciscus summoned Sunday in a speech on St. Peter's Square to end violence in Venezuela and respect human rights. In riots in that country, more than thirty people were killed this month.

Pope Franciscus believes that a third country must be appointed to mediate in the conflict between North Korea and the United States. Norway seems to be a good idea for him, so he announced Saturday in the plane on the way back from his official visit to Egypt.

Not only people, but also keep gulls flowers. Those conclusions came Paul Deckers Sunday. Deckers thirty years involved in the floral displays in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, but this edition he will never forget.

Paus Franciscus on Thursday at the annual ritual washing of feet on the eve of Good Friday visited a prison. In prison Paliano southeast of Rome, he washed the feet of twelve prisoners and he wore a Mass on.

Paus Franciscus on Sunday in the Italian town of Carpi unexpectedly confronted with the misdeeds of some of his predecessors. The prelate rode his popemobile slowly along a 136 year old sign that the 'papal tyranny' is denounced.

Crown Princess Margareta of Romania and her husband Prince Radu on Thursday received Britain's Prince Charles. The British heir to the throne, bringing an official visit to Romania, the couple met at the Elisabeta Palace in Bucharest.

Pope Francis on Friday at the Vatican received the leaders of the European Union. (Outgoing) Prime Minister Mark Rutte was there. It was the second time that Rutte was an audience.

Pope Francis will visit South Sudan in October. The Catholic prelate was going've been planning for the African country stricken by civil war. The violence was always the stumbling block.

Irish Marie Collins, a victim of sexual abuse by a priest, stepped out of the international committee that Pope Francis founded in 2014 in the fight against child abuse. Collins switches to 'frustration' because several members of the Roman Curia, the administrative body around the pope, refusing to cooperate in the prevention of child abuse. In a statement, called the Irish lack of cooperation 'outrageous.'

Horst von Wächter Wednesday in the Polish city of Krakow three paintings rendered who had taken during the Second World War his father Otto. He called on Germans and Austrians who also called looted art in possession to follow his example.

Pope Francis on Wednesday made an urgent appeal for food for the people of South Sudan. According to the prelate condemned millions of people to death ' '' as a result of a famine that afflicts the country.

The leader of the Order of Malta has resigned after a dispute with the Vatican. Knighthood dedicated to humanitarian affairs made Wednesday.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Saturday in Rome met with the pope. Abbas was in Rome to open a Palestinian embassy to the Holy See. A year ago Palestine as an independent state recognized by the mini-state Vatican. During his visit to the Pope, Abbas said he hoped that other countries will recognize Palestine as an independent country.

The Order of Malta is refusing to cooperate with an investigation by the Vatican for the dismissal of a senior member of the order in connection with the distribution of tens of thousands of condoms in Myanmar. The order is given to understand the Vatican that it does not need to interfere.

Pope Francis knows that he is a potential target for an attack. Yet he is not going to go through life in bulletproof cars or protected by other security measures.

Pope Francis on Thursday received victims of the earthquake in central Italy. 'First the hearts need to be restored and then the houses,' said the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in the audience hall of the Vatican. 'Crying helps relieve the pain, but cry together helps better than alone. heal the wounds, even though the scars remain for a lifetime, 'said Francis.

Pope Francis in a letter called on all bishops to strictly adhere to the zero tolerance policy on clergy who are guilty of sexual abuse of children. He is 'a sin for which we are deeply ashamed.' Begged forgiveness for

Pope Francis on Sunday warned during his New Year's Service for selfishness and spiritual isolation. ' The spiritual poverty gets in a narcissistic heart more and more space that in themselves and self-interest is addressed, '' said the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

Pope Francis on Saturday in a New Year speech urged a more vigorous approach to youth unemployment. A generation in danger of being lost to despair, migration and unemployment, he said.

In his annual Christmas speech before the 'Urbi et Orbi' Pope Francis Sunday called for global peace.

Pope Francis thinks Christmas is seized today by blinding materialism that makes many people blind to the needs of the poor in the world. He said Saturday during the Christmas service on Christmas Eve.

The Vatican has three priests from El Salvador found guilty of sexual abuse of minors. This was announced by the Catholic Church of San Salvador Sunday. The sexual abuse allegedly committed between 1980 and 2000.

Pope Francis on Saturday his eightieth birthday celebrated by a festive breakfast which he had invited eight homeless. The breakfast with Argentine sweets lasted about half an hour, as reported Italian media.

The annual nativity scene in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican is dominated by the refugees this year. The nativity scene is next to life-sized figures of Joseph and Mary, to see the three kings and an angel a brightly colored fishing boat.

The American film director Martin Scorsese on Wednesday at the Vatican with his wife and two daughters on private audience was with Pope Francis. The Oscar winner is in Rome to present his film Silence, a film about the persecution of a Jesuit mission priest in Japan in the seventeenth century.

The talks between government and opposition to defuse the political crisis in Venezuela, still. According to the opposition is 'dialogue frozen' because the government delegation did not show up at two scheduled meetings. Opposition leader Jesus Torrealba accuses the government of President Nicolás Maduro irresponsible behavior.

Pope Francis appoints Saturday in St. Peter's officially seventeen new cardinals. It involves five Europeans, four North Americans, three Africans, two South Americans, two Asians and one from Oceania.