Pope Francis on Sunday renewed a call for "wisdom and prudence" over the controversial US decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
"The Holy Father renews his appeal for the wisdom and prudence of everyone, and raises fervent prayers so that the leaders of nations, at this serious moment, commit themselves to avert a new spiral of violence," a statementRead more
Assistant minister on European Affairs at the Palestine Foreign Ministry, Amal Jadou, on Monday said that the ministry is expecting a number of countries to recognize the state of Palestine.
In a talk with PNN, Jadou said that the Palestinian diplomats are working to implement directions of president Mahmoud Abbas, to achieve a collective recognition of Palestine by all countriesRead more
Pope Francis has shrugged off recent in-fighting in the Vatican and other stresses of his job by joking: "I am not on tranquilisers".
"There is corruption in the Vatican. But I am at peace," the pontiff said in a personally revealing interview with Italy's Corriere della Sera, published on Thursday.
In it, the erstwhile Jorge Bergoglio reveals how feelings ofRead more
Ethics experts and human rights lawyers slammed the Vatican Tuesday for inviting a top Chinese health official to an organ trafficking summit despite concerns the Asian giant still uses tissue from executed prisoners.
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences invited Huang Jiefu, the man in charge of overhauling China's transplant system, to the two-day conference in the tiny city state.
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The Vatican said Wednesday it was worried about U.S. President Donald Trump's moves on immigration, in the Holy See's first comment since his executive order banning travel into the United States by citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries.
"Certainly there is worry because we are messengers of another culture, that of openness," the Vatican's deputy secretary of state, Archbishop Angelo Becciu,Read more