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…
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,…
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…
No one talked very much ahead of the fossil-fuel conference hosted by Pope Francis at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican this weekend: not the participants, not the Vatican, and not the University of Notre Dame in the United States, a Roman Catholic institution that co-sponsored the event….
Pope Francis offered a message of hope for migrants across the world during Christmas Eve Mass at the St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome Sunday night, and called on the faithful to make room for the stranger in their worlds. In recounting the story of Mary and Joseph’s pilgrimage to Bethlehem,…
Laureen is the editor of Africa Times
Pope Francis is scheduled to arrive at 2 p.m. local time in Cairo Friday, on a two-day visit to Egypt focused on peace for the nation and solidarity with the oft-wounded Coptic Christian community there. His official reception will be followed immediately by a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah…