Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi met Pope Francis at Vatican seeking support for a new legally binding International law against 'online child sexual abuse', a statement said.For over a year, Satyarthi has been demanding a legally binding United Nation convention...

Pope Francis on Wednesday decried the existence of poverty in the world and said it did not stem from a lack of resources but rather from an economic culture lacking in equity and human solidarity.The head of the Catholic church made his remarks during the...

Pope Francis on Saturday said that gossiping and speak ill of others within religious communities is like terrorism.He made the remark at a meeting with priests, nuns and novices at the Holy Rosary Church in Dhaka, on the last day of his visit to Bangladesh,...

Pope Francis held a mass attended by tens of thousands of worshippers here during which he ordained 16 new priests for the small church of the country which has less than 400 priests.The pontiff arrived in Dhaka on Thursday from Myanmar and said in his address...

Pope Francis, who is on a state visit to Myanmar, met a group of 17 leaders from various religious faiths here on Tuesday, urging them to defend their identities and resist cultural colonialism.The Pope spoke in Spanish during the 40-minute meeting and drew...

Pope Francis headed to Myanmar's capital city of Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday, where heads of the government will officially welcome him on the second day of his visit to the country.In the capital, the pontiff will be received by President Htin Kyaw and will also...

Pope Francis on Sunday invited those gathered in St. Peter's Square to pray for the victims of a deadly attack on a mosque in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula that left 305 people dead and about 100 injured.He recalled that the victims had been praying at...

Pope Francis on Wednesday held an audience with the Muslim World League's secretary general, Mohammed Abdul Karim al-Issa, the Vatican said in a statement, without elaborating on the content of the meeting.The Saudi Arabian government-supported NGO, once...

Calling suicide bombers "martyrs" is an affront to Christians, Pope Francis told pilgrims attending his general audience in Rome's St Peter's Square on Wednesday."The idea that suicide bombers can be called martyrs is repugnant to Christians," Francis said."They...

It is the "small" people, not the powerful ones who God calls and who are able to hear his voice, Pope Francis said on Friday, urging Catholics to "make yourself little"."The Lord loves us for our littleness and that is why he choses us. He choses the small...

Days after US President Donald Trump said he was withdrawing from the landmark 2015 Paris climate pact, Pope Francis on Monday said that the entire world must safeguard the environment."We must never forget that the natural environment is a collective good,...

Pope Francis announced on Sunday that a consistory would be held at the end of June to name five new cardinals, including the Archbishop of Barcelona, Juan Jose Omella.The College of Cardinals is to meet on June 28, and the following day, when the feast of...

Pope Francis on Wednesday appealed for a concerted effort to protect civilians Iraq caught in the ongoing bloody war in their nation and offered special prayers for those trapped in the embattled city of Mosul.Voicing deep pain for the victims of the deadly...

Catholics should show down-and-outs "great humanity" and not treat them like "stray dogs", Pope Francis has said."Homeless people have great dignity. We need to speak to them with great humanity and not treat them as if they owe us something or like stray dogs,"...

Our behaviour has more impact than social media posts, re-posts and "likes", Pope Francis said on Thursday."Do not underestimate the value of example," Francis tweeted."It is more powerful than a thousand words, a thousand 'likes', retweets or YouTube videos,"...

Corruption can begin with little things and to stay on the right track we need to know how to reject life's temptations - from greed to pride and vanity, Pope Francis said on Friday."Many corrupt people, many of the big fish who we read about in the papers, may...

The Holy See is corrupt and the Catholic Church must weed out "ill" priests who sexually abuse children, Pope Francis said in an interview, excerpts of which were published Thursday by Italian daily Corriere della Sera."There is corruption in the Vatican....

Pope Francis on Wednesday urged Christians to stand by their faith and believe in resurrection and eternal life, admitting that we all fear death."We are all a bit afraid of dying," Francis told pilgrims gathered at the Vatican for his weekly general audience."...

Pope Francis on Tuesday called on the world's media to offer people more "good news" and quell anxiety, growing fear and pessimism fuelled by an obsession with "bad news"."Let us offer the men and women of our time stories marked by the logic of 'good news',"...

God completely forgives any sin if the person who committed it has expressed sincere regret and remorse, Pope Francis tweeted on Monday."Nothing of what a repentant sinner places before God's mercy can be excluded from the embrace of his forgiveness," Francis...