Tag: Pope Francis

• Thursday, April 3rd 2014 - 07:36 UTC

  Queen Elizabeth II meets the Pope at private audience in the Vatican

  

  Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will meet with Pope Francis at a private audience in the Vatican on Thursday afternoon. The Queen, who’ll be accompanied by her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, will also have a private encounter with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano during the one day visit to Rome.

• Friday, March 28th 2014 - 08:16 UTC

  Argentine wine from small grape farmers for Pope Francis masses

  

  The wine used for the masses of Pope Francis will be made using grapes from small Argentine producers with 500 liters of the drink already in production, according to a report from the Project for the Integration of Small Producers in the Viticulture Chain (PROVIAR).

• Friday, March 28th 2014 - 06:15 UTC

  Obama praises Francis and invites him to the US; Vatican points out some differences

  

  President Barack Obama and Pope Francis focused publicly on their mutual respect and shared concern for the poor on Thursday during their meeting in the Vatican, but the lengthy private discussion also highlighted the deep differences between the White House and the Catholic Church on abortion and birth control.

• Thursday, March 27th 2014 - 07:55 UTC

  Malvinas affairs official meets with Pope Francis and talks about Falklands' dialogue

  

  Pope Francis showed an interest on the Falklands/Malvinas question negotiations during a meeting on Wednesday at the Vatican with Daniel Filmus chairman of Issues relative to the Malvinas Islands secretariat, according to Argentine sources which gave the event a great coverage. The meeting was in the framework of Wednesdays open audience at St Peter's square, when an estimated 50.000 people attend the ceremony.

• Saturday, March 22nd 2014 - 07:50 UTC

  Malvinas Families wish to have a chapel at Darwin cemetery and requested the “Pope's mediation”

  

  The Malvinas war next of kin are trying to have a chapel or a sanctuary built at the Darwin cemetery, in the Falkland Islands where the remains of 237 Argentine combatants are buried. The idea is to convert “this space in dispute in a peregrination place”, according to a report from the Argentine official news agency Telam.

• Saturday, March 22nd 2014 - 07:37 UTC

  Pope calls on the mafia to change or 'end up in hell, at annual ceremony for the mafiosi victims

  

  Pope Francis, in an annual ceremony held to remember the hundreds of innocent people murdered by the Italian mafia, made a solemn plea for mobsters to change or else “end up in hell”. The mafia continues to plague much of southern Italy: just on Monday, a four-year-old boy was shot dead, along with his mother and her boyfriend, near the southern city of Taranto in a suspected mob hit.

• Thursday, March 20th 2014 - 06:46 UTC

  Pope Francis meets Malvinas war veterans and next of kin

  

  Pope Francis met on Wednesday with a group of Malvinas veterans and next of kin of fallen in the Malvinas war, two weeks before the 32nd anniversary of the Argentine military invasion of the conflict.

• Tuesday, March 18th 2014 - 00:13 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez holds two-hour private meeting with the Pope and then flies to France

  

  President Cristina Fernández (with a sprained ankle in a boot) and Pope Francis shared on Monday a lunch which lasted two hours and a half at Santa Marta residence in the Vatican. It's the third time the Argentine head of state and Francis meet since he was elected pontiff one year ago.

• Thursday, March 13th 2014 - 23:34 UTC

  On the anniversary of his papacy, Francis renewed 'Pray for me' message

  

  Reaffirming his austere and simple style – no mass celebrations have been scheduled in the Vatican to mark the first anniversary of his papacy – Francis chose a social network to address Catholics and renew his “Pray for me” message.

• Thursday, March 13th 2014 - 22:38 UTC

  Pope Francis invited to address a joint session of the US congress

  

  United States House Speaker John Boehner invited Pope Francis to address a joint session of Congress - an unprecedented event - during an expected visit to the United States next year. Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill have quickly sought to invoke the popular pontiff's devotion to the poor.