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July 28, 2014

Pope Francis meets 200 Pentecostals in Italy

Pope Francis greets a woman during his visit with Giovanni Traettino, a Protestant pastor and his friend, in Caserta, Italy, July 28. Pope Francis said he knew people would be shocked that he would make such a trip outside of Rome to visit a group of Pen tecostals, "but I went to visit my friends."

VATICAN CITY - His voice breaking with emotion, Giovanni Traettino, a Pentecostal pastor in southern Italy and longtime friend of Pope Francis, welcomed the Pope, "my beloved brother," to his partially built church in Caserta.

Published in Vatican
July 21, 2014

Why is Pope Francis spending so much time going after the Mafia?

Italy's flag is seen as Pope Francis greets people at Rome's Church of St. Gregory VII March 21 after a prayer service for victims of the Mafia.

VATICAN CITY - It began with the murder of an innocent three-year-old boy who burned to death in his grandfather’s car in a Mafia ambush in January. Pope Francis was so shaken by the death of Nicola “Coco” Campolongo that he spoke out against the ferocity of the crime and those behind it.

Published in Vatican
July 17, 2014

Pope going to Caserta twice — for Mass, then to meet Pentecostals

Pope going to Caserta twice — for Mass, then to meet Pentecostals

VATICAN CITY - Although Pope Francis planned to make a short, private visit to Caserta in southern Italy specifically to visit a Pentecostal pastor he knows from Argentina, the 200-km trip has taken a new form — two forms, to be exact.

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