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He called for the opening of humanitarian corridors.
The Ukrainian Embassy to the Holy See announced the news on Twitter.
Pope Francis has appointed Mons. Raphael Mweempwa who has been serving as a lecturer and formator at St. Dominic Major Theological Seminary in Zambia’s Lusaka Archdiocese the Bishop for Monze Diocese in the Southern Africa country.
The pope assured Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of his closeness, support, and prayers for Ukraine.
"May the corporal fasting to which Lent calls us fortify our spirit for the battle against sin,” Pope Francis said.
The people of God in South Sudan await the possible pastoral visit by the Holy Father “with a lot of anxiety and hope”, the Archbishop of the country’s only Metropolitan See has told ACI Africa in an interview.
Pope Francis has appointed Mons. Aloysius Fondong Abangalo who has been serving as a formator at an inter-Diocesan Major Seminary in Cameroon the Bishop for Mamfe Diocese in the Central African nation.
He said that idealized youth was ‘the dominant image of 20th-century totalitarianism.’
Pope Francis has accepted the retirement of Archbishop Simon Ntamwana of the Catholic Archdiocese of Gitega in Burundi and appointed his successor.
“Turning the other cheek is not the loser’s fallback, but the action of those who have greater inner strength...”
The pope sent a telegram to Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina on Feb. 19 as the island in the Indian Ocean braces for another potential storm heading its way.
The French association, Voir Ensemble (Seeing Together), was founded in 1927 by Father Yves Mollat, a blind Jesuit priest.
Pope Francis has transferred a Catholic Bishop in Kenya, and appointed him Archbishop for the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kisumu.
The pope lamented that John Paul II’s appeal to avoid conflict in Iraq went unheeded
The Vicar General of the Diocese of Garissa in Kenya who has been appointed Bishop of the same Episcopal See has said he will seek to embrace servant leadership during his Episcopal ministry in the Kenyan Catholic Diocese.
He suggested the speech might be the ‘swan song’ of his priestly life.
The pope met with a French Catholic group dedicated to supporting artists and celebrating sacred art, architecture, poetry, and music.
At the general audience, he concluded his 12-week catechesis on St. Joseph.
Pope Francis signed the motu proprio on the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.
Pope Francis has appointed the Provincial Superior of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales (OSFS) in Benin as the Bishop for the country’s Diocese of Djougou, which has been vacant since March 2019 following the death of Bishop Paul Kouassivi Vieira.