Pope Francis completed a week-long visit to Africa in Juba on Sunday, celebrating Mass with a call to peace and praise for the courage of the South Sudanese people. “When our strength seems paltry before the magnitude of our problems and the blind fury of violence, we Christians are able…
Laureen is the editor of Africa Times
Pope Francis began a week-long visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan on Tuesday, arriving in Kinshasa and speaking alongside Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi during a ceremony in the garden of the Palais de la Nation. The pontiff recalled the natural beauty of DR Congo in his…
Laureen is the editor of Africa Times
Pope Francis has canceled a trip to African nations that was set for early July due to health reasons, according to a Vatican spokesman. “At the request of his doctors, and in order not to jeopardize the results of the therapy that he is undergoing for his knee, the Holy…
Pope Francis, speaking from Rome in his Christmas Day message, called on humanity to maintain a hope against the many difficulties of our time — the hope, he said, that is found “in the heart of the night” reflected in the story of the Nativity. “Indeed, even as the message…
Pope Francis delivered his Easter message on Sunday with a reminder of the hope amid troubled times that is the heart of the resurrection message celebrated by Christians around the world. “The Easter message does not offer us a mirage or reveal a magic formula. It does not point to…
For the first time, Pope Francis has said that civil unions should be approved for same-sex couples to ensure they have legal protection. His remarks came with the release of “Francesco,” a documentary film about the pope that was screened for the first time Wednesday at the Rome Film Festival….
Pope Francis attended the final day of a meeting of Roman Catholic bishops from Mediterranean nations, focusing his message on the human dignity of migrants crossing the region and the need to establish peace within it. The bishops from 19 nations met in the southern Italian port city of Bari,…
President Felix Tshisekedi completed his visit with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Friday before heading on an official visit to the United Kingdom. The president of Democratic Republic of Congo discussed the country’s Framework Agreement with the Vatican, while emphasizing the role the influential Roman Catholic Church has played…
Pope Francis urged people to accept the gift of grace into their lives, in a message to Christians and the wider world during the Christmas Vigil Mass at the Vatican in Rome on Tuesday night. Drawing on the Nativity tradition of shepherds watching their flocks and waiting in the night,…
Pope Francis has returned to the Vatican after completing a three-nation tour of southern Africa, and some of his most compelling insights may have been on the plane ride home from Antananarivo. The pope held a press conference with journalists aboard the flight, wrapping up his thoughts on his journey…
Pope Francis arrived late Wednesday in Mozambique to begin a seven-day tour that will take him to three African nations, beginning with his time in Maputo. President Felipe Nyusi and other dignitaries were on hand to meet the pope at the airport when he arrived about 7:30 p.m. local time….
Pope Francis made his commitment to migrants a priority on Saturday as he completes a two-day trip to Morocco, where he met with them during a visit to the Caritas center in Rabat and described their suffering as a wound that cries out to heaven. “We witness many millions of…
A Nigerian nun speaking at a Vatican conference on sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church had strong words for leaders who have failed to protect their congregations – and a message for Africans who think the abuse is a European and North American problem. Sister Veronica Openibo, leader of…
To keep watch, to set out, to risk, to recount the beauty: These are the acts of love reflected in the Nativity story, said Pope Francis during the Christmas Vigil Mass at the Vatican in Rome on Monday night. The pope invited the world’s Christians to return to Bethlehem, considered…
The letter Pope Francis sent Monday to the world’s Roman Catholics acknowledged the latest round of child sex-abuse scandals in the United States – yet his words reached across the globe to African Catholics too, just weeks after the Church’s nuns also spoke out about sexual abuse at the hands…