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Pope Francis appoints Raffaella Petrini as the new secretary general of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, becoming the highest-ranking woman in the Roman Curia and the first woman to ever hold the position.
2021-11-4

Gunmen burn down a Catholic church during mass and kill six people, including a priest, in Dablo, Burkina Faso.
2019-05-12

Pope Francis pays tribute to Cardinal Augustin Bea (1881-1968) as a pioneer of Jewish-Catholic dialogue. The papal audience commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the passing of Cardinal Bea. "He remains a model and a source of inspiration for ecumenical and interreligious dialogue". He served as the first president of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity.
2019-02-28

Pope Francis, responding to FARC rebel leader Rodrigo Londoño's open letter asking for forgiveness for the suffering the group had inflicted on the country during his talk in Villavicencio, urges Colombians skeptical of the peace deal to be open to reconciliation.
2017-09-8

Pope Francis pleads for peace in a Christmas Mass in the Vatican.
2016-12-25

Pope Francis invites the President of Israel Shimon Peres and the President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas to pray with him at the Vatican for peace and the invitations are accepted.
2014-05-25

Tens of thousands of Roman Catholics greet Pope Francis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during his first foreign trip as pontiff.
2013-07-23

Pope Francis names a new Pontifical Commission to investigate current accounting practices among all Vatican offices and bodies and to help devise new strategies for greater fiscal responsibility and fiscal transparency.
2013-07-19

In Brazil, Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, speaks to a group of World Youth Day delegates from 75 countries and 40 movements. He hopes World Youth Day 2013 in Rio de Janeiro will have a lasting effect on the hundreds of thousands of young people slated to attend.
2012-12-3