Vatican Pope Pope Francis wears a scarf he was gifted at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/) ... 04/16/2024 - 9:53 pm | View Link
Vatican Support for a Two-State Solution Started Long Before Pope Francis The most recent appeal represents continuity with his predecessors, especially Pope St. John Paul II, who was anything but reticent in expressing his sympathy toward the Palestinian cause. 04/15/2024 - 6:09 am | View Link
Pope plans to travel to Asia in September, Vatican confirms Pope Francis is planning to make the longest trip of his papacy in September, visiting Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and Singapore, ... 04/12/2024 - 3:35 am | View Link
Vatican priorities mirror those in White House race, but how influential will Pope Francis be? The Vatican is the seat of the religion followed by around one-in-five Americans, and the Catholicism is the most common religious faith in 36 states. 04/11/2024 - 6:38 am | View Link
Pope Francis Slams Women Who Think They Have 'Right to a Child' Pope Francis criticized women this week who believe they have the "right to a child" in a new declaration. On Monday, the Vatican published its "Infinite Dignity" declaration, sharing the Catholic ... 04/8/2024 - 11:41 am | View Link
(BANGKOK) — Myanmar’s jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest as a health measure due to a heat wave, the military government said as it freed more than 3,000 prisoners under an amnesty to mark this week’s traditional New Year holiday.
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Those released included several political prisoners, including a member of the Kachin minority who is one of the country’s most prominent Christian church leaders.
Suu Kyi, 78, and Win Myint, the 72-year-old former president of her ousted government, were among the elderly and infirm prisoners moved to house arrest because of the severe heat, military spokesperson Maj.
Where do you find influence in 2024? You can start with the offices of the Anti-Corruption Foundation in Vilnius, Lithuania, where TIME met with Yulia Navalnaya earlier this spring. There, the activist is working with 60 supporters—whose anti-Kremlin activities include tracking down the villas, yachts, and bank accounts of the Russian political elites—inside three fully operational production studios and a high-tech control room.
In Russian custom, the soul of the dead is believed to remain on earth for forty days, finishing its business among the living before it moves on to the afterlife. Surviving friends and relatives often spend this period in mourning and reflection. But the loved ones of Alexei Navalny, Russia’s leading dissident, did not have much freedom to abide by this custom after he died in an Arctic prison camp on February 16.
For them, and especially for his wife, Yulia Navalnaya, the days and weeks that followed his death rushed by in a blur of studio lights, airport terminals, hotel rooms and video calls.
Outside the closed world of the Kremlin and the Russian prison system, few could have anticipated the death of Alexei Navalny, Russia’s leading dissident, in an Arctic penal colony on February 16. It came as a devastating shock to the revolutionary movement he led and, more acutely, to his close friends and family.
Prince William is expected to return to royal duties Thursday, marking his first public engagements since his wife Kate, the Princess of Wales, announced her cancer diagnosis last month.
William is expected to visit Surrey and West London to “spotlight the community and environmental impact organizations in the area are having through their work”, Kensington Palace said on Tuesday.