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Pope Francis denounced the "intolerable brutality" being inflicted on Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria by Islamic State group militants.

• 02 марта 2015, 10:01

Pope Francis will bring his message of peace and compassion to politically gridlocked Washington in September when he becomes the first pontiff to address the US Congress.

• 06 февраля 2015, 18:28

Pope Francis has met a Spanish transsexual and his fiancée at the Vatican, opening his doors to a man dubbed "the devil's daughter" by a local priest.

• 28 января 2015, 13:54

Pope Francis has said that good Catholics do not have to breed "like rabbits".

• 20 января 2015, 15:09

Pope Francis will fly back to Rome after a dramatic week in Asia that saw him draw record crowds and hammer home his pro-poor message to millions.

• 19 января 2015, 12:34

Pope Francis on Sunday named 20 new cardinals, a majority of them from Africa, Asia and Latin America, increasingly key areas.

• 05 января 2015, 12:16

Pope Francis roundly condemned jihadist violence and the "brutal persecution" of religious minorities in a Christmas message.

• 26 декабря 2014, 11:18

Pope Francis urged people to have greater empathy towards family and friends with problems in his Christmas Eve mass.

• 25 декабря 2014, 13:29

Pope Francis heads to Strasbourg for a lightning visit to the European Parliament, where he hopes to help reinvigorate a "tired" Europe.

• 25 ноября 2014, 15:24

Activists lashed out at the Catholic Church's failure at a major synod to open its doors to gay people, but praised for getting bishops to confront "taboos."

• 20 октября 2014, 12:03

Pope Francis was set to sort his allies from his enemies with a Vatican vote on a document drafted opening the Catholic Church's doors to remarried divorcees and gays.

• 18 октября 2014, 14:04

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a British bishop who stood down after admitting to an affair with a woman.

• 07 октября 2014, 11:00

Nice-guy Pope Francis looks set to have his mettle tested by his first mutiny in the ranks this weekend at a Catholic meeting.

• 03 октября 2014, 15:04

Former Vatican ambassador to Kazakhstan Jozef Wesolowski has kept over a hundred thousand child porn photos and over a hundred child porn videos on his computer.

• 29 сентября 2014, 20:44

Pope Francis joked during a visit to Albania that Mother Teresa would have struck fear into him if she had been his mother superior.

• 23 сентября 2014, 13:52

Security has been tightened in Saint Peter's Square after intelligence services intercepted a possible plan to attack the Vatican.

• 20 сентября 2014, 14:55

Pope Francis is concerned about the political situation in his native Argentina.

• 17 сентября 2014, 15:18

A 17,000-name petition in support of Roman Catholic nuns in the United States deemed too liberal by the Vatican has been delivered to the Holy See.

• 16 сентября 2014, 14:52

War is not the way to address injustice, Pope Francis said.

• 08 сентября 2014, 13:01

Pope Francis urged the divided Koreas to reject suspicion and confrontation and unite as "one family, one people".

• 18 августа 2014, 11:41