#Apostolic Journeys

Pope in Kazakhstan: Mass in Nur-Sultan, “peace is never achieved once and for all”

Pope in Kazakhstan. Mgr. Mumbiela Sierra (Central Asia bishops): “Along the Silk Road, called to be a solid bridge connecting Europe and Asia”

Msgr. José Luis Mumbiela Sierra, bishop of Almaty, President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Central Asia as of past…

Papa Francesco: “I went to Canada to ask forgiveness on behalf of the Church”

Speaking at today’s audience, Pope Francis retraced each leg of his “penitential pilgrimage” to Canada. “The main motivation was to…

The Pope in Canada. “I also feel a part of your family”

The meeting with Quebec’s indigenous people and the stopover in Iqaluit, near the Arctic Circle, were the highlights of the…

Pope in Canada: “No to ideological colonisations and terrible cold wars that are still increasing”

“We need to ask ourselves not how to pursue wars, but how to stop them. And to prevent entire peoples…

Pope in Canada: “What do we want to bequeath to those who come after us, a world at war or a world at peace?”

The Holy Mass at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium, before a crowd of 50,000 people, followed by the “Lac Ste. Anne pilgrimage”,…

The Pope in Canada: “I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians”

“I myself wish to reaffirm this, with shame and unambiguously. I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so…

The Pope in Cyprus and Greece: “Fraternity, an antidote to walls and barbed wire”

Pope Francis completed his 35th apostolic journey to Cyprus and Greece with a strong appeal to Europe and the world…

Pope in Lesbos: “Stop this shipwreck of civilization!”

Pope Francis has returned to Lesbos after five years to send yet a further appeal to the international community not…

Pope in Cyprus. Pizzaballa (Patriarch): “For continued service as a laboratory of dialogue and field hospital”

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, describes the atmosphere in the country looking forward to the papal visit: “A…

Pope at audience: “The challenge for the entire world is fraternity”

Speaking at today’s General Audience – live streamed from the private library of the Apostolic Palace – Pope Francis retraced…