Pope Francis

Some 150,000 Indian, Metis and Inuit children were enrolled from the late 1800s to the 1990s in 139 of the residential schools across Canada

Becciu has been charged with embezzlement and abuse of office over the purchase of the London property.

Following the operation, a statement from the Vatican said he has reacted well to the intervention.

The Vatican continues to defend marriage as being between a man and a woman, opposes gay adoptions, and sees "gender ideology" as a threat to traditional family values.

The new code specifies that a priest is to be stripped of his office and punished "with other just penalties"

The pope was driven in a golf cart around the historic Old City, largely razed during the grinding fight to dislodge the jihadists.

Pope Francis is an outspoken proponent of interfaith efforts and has visited several Muslim-majority countries including Bangladesh, Turkey, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.

Bruck, now 88, has been settled in Rome for many years and is now an Italian citizen.

A note sent to papal ambassadors late last week by the Secretariat of State -- hammered home that there had been no change in Church doctrine.

The virus has killed more than 37,000 people in Italy, but thousands have also turned out in recent days to protest curbs on social activities.

The Pope's favourable stance on civil unions marks a step away from a 2003 document prepared by the Vatican's dogma office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Most of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics were in forced confinement as the Pope spoke.

The epidemic has wreaked havoc on international business, tourism, sports events, and schools, with almost 300 mn students sent home worldwide.

Pope Francis apologised for slapping the hand of a woman who grabbed him on New Year's Eve.

Thirty-five civilians, including 31 women, and seven soldiers were killed Tuesday in simultaneous attacks which lasted for several hours.

Francis will at noon on Wednesday give the traditional Christmas Day mass -- his seventh -- addressed to the world in front of St Peter's Square.

Thousands of Palestinians and foreigners converged in Bethlehem, revered by Christians as the birthplace of Jesus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

This will be the pope's third trip to Asia, taking him to two Buddhist-majority countries.

Former Irish president Mary McAleese has strongly criticized the Catholic Church over a lack of gender inclusion and LGBT rights.

A Vatican magazine has denounced how nuns are often treated like indentured servants in the Roman Catholic Church.

Pope Francis jokes that gossiping nuns are 'terrorists' during visit to the Church of the Nazarenas in Lima, Peru.

Pope Francis conducted an impromptu wedding of a couple of flight attendants aboard the papal plane as he traveled from Santiago to Iquique, Chile.

Nine churches have been firebombed in the past week, and scores of demonstrators were arrested during his first open-air mass in Santiago.

The Vatican pontiff's comments come in the wake of Hawaii false alarm over missile launch and North Korea scenario.

Catholic Church rocked by new sex abuse allegations as Sion bishop Jean-Marie Lovey apologises for clerical abuse by 10 paedophile priests in Switzerland.

The pope took particular aim at areas of global tension where President Donald Trump is playing a critical role.

Australian commission publishes report that finds "catastrophic failures" by Catholic Church to address child sex abuse allegations and calls on Vatican to overhaul celibacy rule.

The head of the Catholic church suggested that part of the Lord's Prayer was "not a good translation" and suggested it be changed.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warns that Donald Trump's decision to declare Jerusalem Israel's capital will play into the hands of terror groups in Middle East.

Pope Francis joins world leaders in criticising US President Donald Trump's expected recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.