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July 20, 2016

Pope sends cardinal to South Sudan to urge peace

South Sudanese policemen and soldiers stand guard along a street following renewed fighting July 10 in Juba. Pope Francis have send a high-ranking cardinal to the war-torn country to urge peace.

ROME – Pope Francis sent a high-ranking cardinal to South Sudan to urge for a peaceful end to the escalating violence in the country.

Published in International
April 29, 2015

Vatican kicks off environmental push with climate change summit

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses an April 28 summit on the moral dimensions of climate change and its impact on the poor. Also pictured is Italy's President Sergio Mattarella, lower left.

Top officials from the Vatican, the head of the United Nations and leading scientists came together at a summit Tuesday (April 28) in Vatican City to label the fight against man-made climate change as a “moral issue.”

Published in Vatican
January 7, 2015

Vatican sending $3.5 million to help Church response to Ebola

A Kenyan Port Health Services worker wearing full personal protective equipment commands a small boy, who is among nine Kenyans who were stranded in the Ebola-hit country Liberia, to return to an observation room for Ebola screening, as they arrive at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Oct. 28 in Nairobi, Kenya.

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican is helping Catholic dioceses and agencies step up the fight against Ebola and is urging other donors to help.

Published in International
November 30, 2014

‘Food is an inalienable right’

‘Food is an inalienable right’

God’s gifts to us should be used to overcome the scourge of hunger

Published in Features
August 21, 2014

Pope Francis' 2015 World Peace Day message to focus on human trafficking

Sex workers and their children take part in an Aug. 14 demonstration seeking better rights and a halt to girl trafficking in the red-light area of Kolkata, India. Human trafficking destroys the lives of millions of children, women and men each year, ma king it a real threat to peace, the Vatican said as it announced Pope Francis' 2015 World Peace Day message would focus on the phenomenon.

VATICAN CITY - Human trafficking destroys the lives of millions of children, women and men each year, making it a real threat to peace, the Vatican said as it announced Pope Francis' 2015 World Peace Day message would focus on the phenomenon.

Published in Vatican
December 3, 2012

Pope calls for world authority as 'moral force'

Cardinal Peter Turkson said that the agenda for the plenary session would include the topic of global financial governance as a response to the world financial crisis.

VATICAN CITY - The world authority envisioned by two popes as a way to ensure global peace and justice would not be a superpower, but primarily a moral force with limited jurisdiction, Pope Benedict XVI said.

Published in International