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Montevideo, May 9th 2025 - 13:17 UTC

Tag: Cardinal Pietro Parolin

  • Monday, February 24th 2025 - 18:42 UTC

    Pope has kidney failure in addition to bout of asthma

    A rosary will be prayed later Monday at St Peter's Square to beg for Francis' recovery

    The latest medical reports on 88-year-old Pope Francis, who has been hospitalized since Feb. 14, at Rome's Policlinico Gemelli due to a respiratory infection, now mentioned “kidney failure” and a bout of asthma. Vatican sources said he slept well on Sunday night, in good spirits, eating normally and experiencing no pain. However, a rosary is to be held Monday at St Peter's Square at 9 pm Rome's time for the prompt recovery of the former Archbishop of Buenos Aires and the ill. The event will be presided over by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin.

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

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

    Francis “reiterates his support for the goal of attaining the peace and reconciliation of the entire Colombian people, in light of human rights and Christian values”

    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

    “They talked about terrorism, drug-trafficking, poverty, inequality, and most of the time about the union of Argentines”, revealed Susana Malcorra

    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

    The Argentine president is seen chatting with Salta governor Uturbey at Ezeiza

    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

    Presidents Barack Obama of the United Stes and Raul Castro of Cuba agreed to restore full diplomatic ties with help from Pope Francis.

    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 current Vatican Secretary of State was Apostolic Nuncio to Venezuela

    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.