As Ukraine experienced a deadly weekend with a barrage of attacks from Russia on Kryvyi Rih and Kyiv, the capital, the papal almoner handed a gift from Pope Francis — four ambulances — to local ...

Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin meets with Ukrainian President ... s] support for their release,” Zelenskyy said. In April 2023 Pope Francis confirmed publicly that the Holy See had assisted ...

Pope Francis meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a private audience at the Vatican on Saturday. Francis recently said that the Vatican has launched a behind-the-scenes initiative ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met British Adm. Antony Radakin and French Gen. Thierry Burkhard in Kyiv on Saturday ...

“Thank you, dearest children! The pope loves you and is always waiting to meet you,’’ Francis said. The Rev. Enzo Fortunato, president of the pontifical committee for World Children’s Day ...

Pope Francis’ condition “continues to be stable ... Ukraine’s president, Volodomyr Zelenskyy, on the other hand, has met the pope more than once and spoken to him and to senior Vatican ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As the United States continues to attempt to broker a ceasefire deal between Russia and Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ... “I wished Pope Francis a ...

Dead bodies lie on the ground after a Russian rocket strike hit a residential neighborhood, resulting in the deaths of civilians, including children, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, April 4, 2025.

VATICAN CITY >> The Vatican on Sunday released the first image of Pope Francis in hospital since he began treatment for double pneumonia, in which the 88-year-old pontiff appears to be breathing ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has provided the Vatican ... in which he also wished Pope Francis, who has been hospitalized for a month in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, “a speedy recovery.” ...