Tag: Cardinal Pietro Parolin

• Thursday, September 1st 2016 - 10:10 UTC

  Pope declines request to help select judges for Colombia's peace tribunal

  

  The Vatican announced Wednesday that, although Pope Francis is pleased about a peace deal between the government of Colombia and the country’s guerrillas, he has declined a request to have a Vatican envoy help select judges for a new peace tribunal.

• Monday, February 29th 2016 - 07:18 UTC

  Francis wanted to understand how Macri was going to address eliminating poverty

  

  It was a 'good, enriching' meeting, a private conversation between the Holy Father and the president “which covered all the areas we expected to cover”, was how the Argentine foreign minister described Saturday's 22 minutes meeting between Francis and visiting President Mauricio Macri.

• Friday, February 26th 2016 - 06:08 UTC

  Macri and opposition governors will meet Pope Francis on Saturday

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri flew after midday to Rome ahead of Saturday’s meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Macri flew in an Alitalia commercial flight accompanied by his wife Juliana Awada, their small daughter Antonia and a small delegation of close aides and three provincial governors specially invited for the occasion.

• Thursday, December 18th 2014 - 01:17 UTC

  Francis instrumental in US-Cuba relationship process

  

  The first Latin American pope in history sent letters to Obama, Raúl Castro and brokered negotiations which ended up in Wednesday's announcement that both countries are to resume full ties.

• Thursday, April 10th 2014 - 06:22 UTC

  Venezuela invites Cardinal Parolin to become “mediator of good will”

  

  The Venezuelan government formally invited today the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, to join the exploratory talks with the opposition as “mediator of good will” in order to find a solution to the violent situation in the country.