Pope Francis on Sunday began Easter week celebrations in St Peter’s Basilica under extraordinary circumstances, with no congregation allowed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Pope Francis on Friday issued a special video message calling on people around the world not to lose faith and to comfort each other through the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Pope Francis will not lead any public celebration for Easter due to the coronavirus, the Vatican said on Sunday, a move unprecedented in modern times.
Rev. Sr. Eunice Ikufisile, the Director of Social Communications in the Catholic Diocese of Oyo, stated this in a statement she e-mailed to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Tuesday
Obi spoke Thursday to journalists at the Nnamdi Azikiwe international Airport, Abuja
The Vatican did not comment on the report
Pope Francis cancelled a planned religious service in a Roman basilica due to a slight ailment, the Vatican said on Thursday.
Pope Francis considers a recent controversy with his predecessor, Benedict XVI, regarding priestly celibacy “closed,” a media report said on Thursday.
Italy-born Francesca Di Giovanni was appointed Undersecretary for the Section for Relations with States at the Vatican’s Secretariat of State, a Vatican statement said on Wednesday.
Benedict’s defense appears to be a strategically timed appeal to Pope Francis to not change the rules.
Kaigama confirmed the appointment in a statement signed by him and Rev. Fr. Ray Ikpa, the Chancellor of the Archdiocese.
The Pope’s apology came swiftly in less than 24 hours but he actually didn’t need to apologise because he did no wrong.
Pope Francis was set on Tuesday to celebrate Christmas eve mass in St Peter’s basilica, one of the most important ceremonies in the Catholic Church liturgy.
Pope Francis issued a fresh appeal on Thursday for countries to welcome migrants as he met a group of refugees the Vatican airlifted out of a Greek detention camp.
Two documents issued by the pope back practices that have been in place in some countries, particularly the US, such as reporting suspicion of sex abuse to civil authorities where required by law.
The Vatican said on Wednesday that Pope Francis had accepted the resignation of Bishop Richard Malone of Buffalo, New York, who has been at the centre of a sex abuse crisis in his diocese.
The 82-year-old Argentinian pope, who arrived in Japan on Saturday for a four-day visit, listened to the accounts of three survivors of the disaster.
He is set to travel to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two cities flattened by U.S. atom bombs at the end of World War II and meet those “who still carry the wounds of this tragic event in human history,” he said after his arrival.
The pontiff also urged the leaders to bring an end to the suffering of its people.
The Holy Father, Pope Francis on Saturday officially announced the retirement of His Eminence, John Cardinal Onaiyekan as the Archbishop of Abuja Dioceses.