•Pope Leo XIV Pope Leo XIV yesterday issued an unprecedented apology for the Vatican’s role in justifying slavery, saying the delay in condemning the practice was “a wound in Christian memory”. In a major text warning about the risk of “new forms of slavery” behind the digital economy, Leo said church institutions owned slaves until […]...
•Fayemi (L), Peter Obi and Tinubu Former Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi has revealed how he convinced former Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi to greet President Bola Ahmed Tinubu during the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican. Fayemi disclosed this during an interview on Edmund Obilo’s YouTube channel uploaded yesterd...
•King Charles III Britain’s King Charles III, head of the Church of England, and Queen Camilla will make a historic state visit to the Vatican next week to meet Pope Leo XIV for the first time, Buckingham Palace said today. “The King and Queen will undertake a historic state visit to the Holy See from […]
•Black smoke rising from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel signalling that Cardinals again failed to elect a new pope during their conclave in the Vatican today Black smoke billowed from a chimney over the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel for a second day today as cardinals meeting in conclave once again failed to choose a new […]
•Akpabio in Rome for Pope Francis’ burial Senate President Godswill Akpabio and other members of Nigeria’s official delegation have arrived in Vatican City ahead of the funeral of Pope Francis, scheduled for today. Akpabio is leading the five-member high-level delegation constituted by President Bola Tinubu to represent Nigeria at the burial r...
•Swiss Guards (L) and members of the clergy (R) stand next to coffin of the late Pope Francis (C) inside St Peter’s Basilica yesterday The public can begin visiting Pope Francis’s tomb at the Roman basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore “as early as Sunday morning”, Vatican spokesman, Matteo Bruni, announced. The funeral of Pope Francis, […]...
•Pope Francis Pope Francis will make his first public appearance tomorrow with a blessing and a wave from a window at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital where he was admitted on February 14. The 88-year-old pontiff has been battling pneumonia in both lungs after being hospitalised for breathing difficulties, reports AFP. “Pope Francis intends to wave and...
•Pope Francis Pope Francis, in hospital with pneumonia, suffered a breathing “crisis” yesterday which caused him to vomit but he was given air and responded well, the Vatican said. The episode came just hours after a Vatican source said the 88-year-old pontiff’s condition was no longer considered critical, following a series of incremental imp...
•Pope Francis Pope Francis showed further improvement today, the Vatican said, although it cautioned that “the prognosis remains reserved” for the 88-year-old fighting pneumonia. “The clinical conditions of the Holy Father in the last 24 hours have shown a further, slight improvement,” said the Vatican in a statement, adding that a CT scan of ...
•Pope Francis Pope Francis’s condition “continues to be critical”, the Vatican said yesterday, saying the 88-year-old was alert but had suffered a respiratory attack that required “high-flow oxygen”, and also blood transfusions. “At the moment the prognosis is reserved,” it said, as the head of the Catholic Church prepared to spend his ninth n...
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