Some clutched rosaries, others took selfies or touched the protective glass in front of the seemingly sleeping young man, who ...

Metropolitan Hilarion, once seen as Patriarch Kirill's successor ... to banning religious organizations considered close to Moscow. Pope Francis condemned Kyiv's ban on the Ukrainian Orthodox ...

limited mobility often requiring a wheelchair and the removal of part of a lung as a young man. Francis was elected on March 13, 2013 as the 266th pope — and the Catholic Church’s first Latin ...

At 66, Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon released a new book, Free Children of God, on March 13. The right-hand man of ...

The Chaldean patriarch of Baghdad ... Indonesia: interfaith prayers for pope’s health In addition, young Indonesians of different faiths have also wanted to join the prayers arriving from ...

after he contracted pleurisy – an inflammation of the lungs – as a young man and had a partial lung removal. Vatican sources stress, as they have all along, that the Pope's condition remains ...

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis, 88, has suffered three breathing ... June 16 that year was admitted for a hernia operation. As a young man, he had part of his right lung removed, making him more ...

For more than two weeks, eyes have been on the Vatican, awaiting news about Pope Francis' health. The pope has been at Rome's Gemelli Hospital since Feb. 14, 2025, being treated for double ...

Pope Francis will resume "non-invasive mechanical ventilation" Tuesday despite his condition remaining stable, the Vatican announced. "Today the Holy Father’s clinical conditions remained stable ...

Pope Francis’ clinical condition “remained stable today,” and he did not have any breathing crises, according to the latest medical bulletin from his doctors at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital ...

As Pope Francis remains in hospital, some discuss resignation Pope unlikely to resign, say biographers 'He's always been a fighter,' says friend of Francis VATICAN CITY, March 4 (Reuters ...