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Vatican: Pope Francis on Sunday condoled the loss of lives in the train accident in Odisha's Balasore in which 275 people died and over a thousand were injured. During the Sunday Angelus in Saint Peter's Square, Pope Francis remembered the victims of the train accident. The Pope assured the ...

BUDAPEST — Pope Francis arrives in Hungary on Friday for a three-day pastoral visit — his first full trip to the country since he became Pope 10 years ago.What kept him away was the tough anti-migrant stance of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, in contrast to the 86-year-old pontiff's compassion ...

IGP Charu Sinha, who is an IPS officer of 1996 batch from the Telangana cadre will be the first woman officer to hold the post of IGP Southern Sector. Updated On - 04:22 PM, Fri - 3 March 23 Hyderabad: IGP Charu Sinha, an IPS officer of 1996 batch ...

AWALI, Bahrain (AP) — Pope Francis urged Bahrain authorities on Thursday to renounce the death penalty and ensure basic human rights are guaranteed for all citizens as he arrived in the Sunni-led kingdom that has been accused by rights groups of systematic discrimination against its Shiite majority. With King ...

Author: APID: 1653822160582476500Sun, 2022-05-29 10:54 VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis said Sunday he will elevate 21 churchmen to the rank of cardinal in a ceremony at the Vatican this summer. Among the churchmen tapped by the pontiff to receive the prestigious red hat will be two prelates from India and one each ...

General Sunith Francis Rodrigues, a former army chief who was instrumental in inducting women as officers and later flagged concerns about the politicisation of the armed forces, passed away at Panaji in Goa on Friday after a brief illness. He was 88, and is survived by his wife, Jean, ...

Rome:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday invited Pope Francis to visit India as he called on the head of the Catholic Church at the Vatican in their first-ever one-to-one meeting. At the Vatican, Modi was accompanied by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. ...

Vatican City , 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. "I think often of persecuted peoples: the Rohingya, the poor Uyghurs, the Yazidi -- what ISIS did to them was ...

#Pakistan News China criticized Pope Francis on Tuesday over a passage in his new book in which he mentions suffering by China's Uighur Muslim minority group. Foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Francis' remarks had "no factual basis at all." "People of all ethnic groups enjoy the full rights ...

A passage in the pontiff’s new book referring to Uighur suffering has ‘no factual basis at all’, Chinese foreign ministry says.China has criticised Pope Francis over a passage in his new book in which he mentions the suffering of China’s Uighur Muslim minority group, saying his remarks have “no ...