The Christian Post, by Michael Gryboski: Pope Francis called on Christians worldwide to recite the Lord’s Prayer, also known as the Our Father, at noon Wednesday [March 25th] in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The head of the Roman Catholic…

BBC News: Pope Francis has called for global solidarity to fight the coronavirus crisis in his Easter message read to an empty St Peter’s Basilica. “This is not a time for indifference. Because the whole world is suffering and needs…

Life Site News, by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman: Pope Francis told a Spanish journalist on Sunday that he believes that the coronavirus pandemic is nature “having a fit” in response to environmental pollution. Stating that “curiously the planet hasn’t been very…

Israel National News, by Mordechai Sones: Supreme Pontiff, Bishop of Rome, and leader of the worldwide Catholic Church His Holiness Pope Francis have called on believers to keep the Sabbath as “the Jews followed and still observe.” “We live with…

Breaking Israel News, by Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: Historically, the Vatican was no friend to the Jews, but its new initiative aligns the Catholic Church with Islam in a one-world religion that may be the biggest threat ever to the Jewish…

America, by Gerard O’Connell: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence met Pope Francis in the Vatican at noon on Jan. 24, and the two spoke together in private for an hour, a surprisingly long time for an audience with someone who…

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Reuters, by Philip Pullella: Pope Francis and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo agreed on Thursday on the need to protect the rights of Christian minorities in the Middle East during a meeting at the Vatican, the U.S. State Department…

CNSNews.com, by Michael W. Chapman: PinkNews, a popular online news source for the global LGBT+ community, praised one of Pope Francis’ new appointments for cardinal, Archbishop Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, Italy, stating that the Pope had “named a pro-LGBT+ bishop…

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The Trumpet: Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on July 4. This is his third meeting with the pope—a high number for a dictator who is closely allied with the Orthodox Church, which split from…