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ROME — US President Donald Trump arrived in Rome on Friday for the funeral of Pope Francis, where he will brush shoulders with an array of world leaders on the unexpected first foreign trip of his second…
Vatican City, Holy See — A still-convalescing Pope Francis said Thursday he was doing “as best I can” as he visited inmates at Rome’s central jail before Easter. The 88-year-old Argentine pontiff spent about a half hour…
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, continuing his recovery from life-threatening pneumonia, made a surprise visit on Saturday to his favorite Roman basilica, the Vatican press service said on Telegram. It was a fourth unscheduled appearance in recent…
ROME, Italy – The Vatican announced on Monday that Pope Francis, who was hospitalized for bronchitis four days ago, is experiencing a “complex clinical picture,” suggesting that the 88-year-old may remain in the hospital longer than initially…
The 86-year-old pontiff, who was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Wednesday with breathing difficulties, got out of the car transporting him and smiled and joked with the crowd. Asked by someone how he felt, he quipped…
Are we truly heading for war? The Ukraine war is such a horrible disaster that we must think seriously about how to get back to peace and stability. Reading Roman history during the Christmas holidays, I was…
MANILA, Philippines–Margielyn Didal began paving her road going to the 2024 Paris Olympics after finishing 18th overall in the World Street Skateboard Championships in Rome, Italy. The reigning Asian Games champion made the cut in the 32-skater…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu’s skateboarding pride, Margielyn Didal, may not have qualified in the final round of the women’s category of the World Street Skateboarding Championships 2021 in Rome, Italy, but she earned her first Olympics…
Novak Djokovic has said he had mixed feelings about ending a “strange year” as the world number one for a sixth time after the season was hit hard by the novel coronavirus pandemic. Djokovic won a record-extending…
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis celebrated the Ash Wednesday ritual that marks the opening of the Catholic Church’s Lenten season in traditional fashion while greeting the public in Rome as other Masses were canceled in northern Italy…
MORE than 20 people, mainly Russian football fans, were injured Tuesday when an escalator in a metro station in central Rome collapsed, firefighters said. Most of those hurt, one seriously, suffered leg injuries after getting entangled in…
Midnight of the thirteenth of February 2017, workers in an uptown Cebu City hotel decked the walls outside their foyer with artificial red roses as large as basins. On the sidewalk nearby, heart-shaped crimson-and-silver balloons on plastic…
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