Tag: Pope Francis

• Wednesday, May 6th 2015 - 06:55 UTC

  Pope Francis will receive Cuba's Raul Castro on private visit next Sunday

  

  Pope Francis and Cuban President Raul Castro will meet privately on Sunday at the Vatican, a spokesman said, four months before the pontiff's trip to the Caribbean island, his first as leader of the Catholic Church.

• Wednesday, April 29th 2015 - 08:40 UTC

  “Being Argentine, they thought I would call myself Jesus II” and not Francis

  

  After meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican on Tuesday, the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, told his two million Twitter followers that the pontiff had spoken enthusiastically about his coming visit to the country and had even told him a self-deprecating joke about the Argentines.

• Thursday, April 23rd 2015 - 09:34 UTC

  Vatican confirms Pope visit to Cuba on his trip to United States

  

  Leaders of Cuba's Catholic Church expressed joy Wednesday on learning that Pope Francis will visit the island in September amid the budding Vatican-mediated rapprochement between Havana and Washington. Francis will stop in Cuba before his Sept. 23 meeting in the United States with President Barack Obama.

• Friday, April 17th 2015 - 04:32 UTC

  Pope Francis to visit Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay next July

  

  Pope Francis will make his first visit as pontiff to Spanish-speaking Latin America in July, stopping in Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay, the Vatican said Thursday. The pope will kick off his trip in Ecuador on July 6, then travel to Bolivia on July 8 and wrap up his tour in Paraguay from July 10 to 12.

• Thursday, April 16th 2015 - 08:45 UTC

  EU parliament Armenia resolution “mutilates history and law” blasts Turkey

  

  Turkey’s Foreign Ministry slammed the European Parliament’s decision to adopt a resolution that urges all EU member states and Turkey to recognize the 1915 events as ‘genocide’ and accused the resolution of mutilating history and law, Daily Sabah reports.

• Wednesday, April 15th 2015 - 08:19 UTC

  Turkey warns Pope Francis not to repeat the 'mistake' of using 'genocide' for mass killings of Armenians

  

  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has condemned Pope Francis, warning him to not repeat the “mistake” of describing the mass killings of Ottoman Armenians as “genocide.”

• Wednesday, April 15th 2015 - 08:01 UTC

  An Apple iPad from Pope Francis fetched 30.500 dollars at auction in Uruguay

  

  An Apple iPad which belonged to Pope Francis has fetched 30,500 dollars at auction, with proceeds going to a school in a poor neighborhood in Uruguay, the local auction house selling the item said.

• Monday, April 13th 2015 - 08:57 UTC

  Francis triggers fury from Turkey recalling the genocide of the Armenian people

  

  Pope Francis uttered the word “genocide” on Sunday to describe the mass murder of Armenians 100 years ago, sparking fury from Turkey which slammed the term as “far from historical reality”.

• Sunday, April 12th 2015 - 10:48 UTC

  Pope Francis appeals to Americas Summit for better distribution of riches

  

  In a message addressed to the President of Panama Juan Carlos Varela, Pope Francis urged leaders attending the OAS Americas' Summit to strengthen efforts against inequality which he considered a “source for conflicts.”

• Wednesday, April 1st 2015 - 06:44 UTC

  Argentine president main speaker at Falklands war ceremony and enshrinement of “Our Lady of Malvinas”

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez will be the main speaker at the commemoration of the 33rd anniversary of the start of the Falklands/Malvinas war, to be held April second in the city of Ushuaia and which will also include a political-religious ceremony.