Pope Francis today called for less money to be spent on military purposes so that there is more for humanitarian purposes. "It is our duty to help eradicate hatred and violence from human hearts," the Pope announced on the X platform, formerly Twitter. "To encourage the people to lay down their arms, to reduce military expenditure in favor of...
The deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean are "pain and shame" and "an open wound of humanity", Pope Francis said today, adding that he was praying for the people who have died in shipwrecks since the beginning of this month. Surviving migrants were rescued from the sea on Wednesday and landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa, and in today's address to the faithful, the Pope...
Pope Francis condemned yesterday's assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, who was killed less than two weeks before presidential elections, and called for an end to political violence in the South American country. "Faced with the suffering caused by unjustified violence, which he unreservedly condemns, His Holiness calls on all citizens and political forces to...
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Pope Francis said that the Catholic Church is open to everyone, including the LGBTI+ community, and that it has a duty to accompany them on a personal path of spirituality, but within its rules. Francis, speaking to reporters on the plane he was flying back to Rome from Portugal, also said his health was good...
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Pope Francis said today that the heat waves in many parts of the world and the floods once again indicated the necessity of taking urgent measures in the fight against climate change. "Please, I renew my appeal to world leaders to do something more concrete to limit the emission of harmful gases. It is an urgent challenge, it cannot…
