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Pope Francis allows women to serve at Mass, but no to female priests
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], January 12 (ANI): Pope Francis has changed the laws of the Roman Catholic Church to formally allow women to serve at the altar, give readings from the Bible during Mass and administer communion, yet they remain barred from ordained priesthood.
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Pope Francis likely to get vaccinated against COVID-19 next week
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Vatican City [Vatican], January 10 (ANI): Pope Francis has said that the Vatican will initiate Covid-19 vaccinations from next week and that he is in line to receive a vaccine dose.
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Pope Francis to visit Iraq in March 2021
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], December 8 (ANI) Pope Francis is set to travel to Iraq in March 2021, which would be his first outside Italy ever since the coronavirus pandemic, said the Vatican press office.
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In a first, Pope Francis calls China's Uyghurs 'persecuted'
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Vatican City [Vatican], November 25 (ANI): Pope Francis has for the first time called Chinese Muslim Uyghurs a "persecuted" people, breaking his silence over Beijing's atrocities on its minorities.
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Pope Francis declares support for civil union laws for same sex couples
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Vatican City [Vatican], October 21 (ANI): Pope Francis declared support for civil unions for same-sex couples for the first time as pontiff during an interview for a documentary film, that premiered on Wednesday at the Rome Film festival.
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Dissident says CCP pays off Vatican $2 billion annually for its silence on
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 29 (ANI): Exiled Chinese dissident Guo Wengei has revealed that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) allocates USD two billion every year to pay off the Vatican for its silence concerning atrocities by Beijing.
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Pope Francis offers first public mass as Italy eases coronavirus restricti
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Vatican City [Vatican], May 18 (ANI): Pope Francis on Monday offered public mass at St Peter's Basilica here, the first in two months, as restrictions imposed due to coronavirus pandemic were eased.
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Pope calls for global solidarity to confront 'epochal challenge' posed by
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Vatican City [Vatican], April 12 (ANI): Pope Francis in his traditional Easter address on Sunday delivered a message of hope calling for solidarity across the world to confront the "epochal challenge" posed by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Pope calls for world to come together against coronavirus
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Vatican City, Mar 29 (ANI): Pope Francis on Sunday called for the world to stop "all forms of war" and act as "one human family" against the coronavirus.
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Pope Francis live-streams his prayers amid coronavirus outbreak
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Vatican [Italy], Mar 08 (ANI): Breaking a centuries-old tradition as the country deals with coronavirus outbreak, Pope Francis here live-streamed his prayers to giant screens in St. Peter's Square instead of addressing through Vatican palazzo window on Sunday.
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Pope Francis to deliver Sunday prayers via livestream instead of papal win
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Rome [Italy], Mar 8 (ANI): Instead of addressing the crowd from a window overlooking St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis will deliver Sunday prayers via a livestream video from a library inside the Vatican because of the coronavirus outbreak in Italy, officials have said.
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First coronavirus case detected in Vatican: Holy See Spokesman
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Vatican City, Mar 6 (Sputnik/ANI): The first case of the novel coronavirus was detected in the Vatican, Holy See Spokesman Matteo Bruni told reporters on Friday.
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