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Pope Francis may travel to Bangladesh and Myanmar in November, Argentine news agency Telam has said. Vatican sources on Friday did not deny the reports, saying such a visit was under evaluation.

Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano on Wednesday blasted the European Union for failing to do more to help Italy with the Mediterranean asylum-seeker crisis.

The Vatican has turned off its fountains, including those in St Peter's Square, due to the drought-induced shortage that means Rome risks facing water rationing.

The Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Friday that Pope Francis has made an unprecedented move with a €25,000 donation to the United Nations agency's efforts for people facing food insecurity and famine in East Africa.

Pope Francis called on the faithful to pray for the victims of organized crime via Twitter on Wednesday, the 25th anniversary of the murder of anti-Mafia prosecutor Paolo Borsellino and his security detail.

Ex-Bambino Gesù chiefs accused of diverting funds.

It is a "duty for all" not to stand by and ignore the destruction of the environment, Pope Francis said in a message to an international congress in Brazil on his Laudato si' encyclical Friday.

Pope Francis has opened a new fourth path to sainthood alongside martyrdom, living a heroic life of Christian virtue and having a strong reputation for religious devotion. The fourth way is laying down one's life for the faith.

Pope Francis tweeted Tuesday that "Europe has and ideal and spiritual patrimony unique in the world which deserves to be re-proposed with passion and renewed freshness".

Pope Francis told world leaders that war "is never a solution" and called for an end to all "useless slaughters" in his message for the G20 summit in Hamburg, which the Vatican released on Friday.

Doctor-turned-journalist was 80.

Pope Francis said Monday that the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) must be put in a position to intervene when people do not have enough to eat. "All of us realize that the intention to provide everyone with his or her daily bread is not enough.

Top clergyman vows to clear his name in Australia.

Have older work less to create jobs for young says pontiff.

The leaders of the Church are old but they can dream and show young people the way forward, Pope Francis said Tuesday.

The churches in Syria, Iraq and Egypt are suffering from war and terrorism, Pope Francis said on Thursday.

Libero Milone has quit as the Vatican's auditor general after two years on the post, Vatican sources told ANSA on Tuesday. A statement from the Vatican press office said that the decision had been by mutual accord.

Pope Francis will visit Chile and Peru in January 2018, Vatican Spokesperson Greg Burke announced on Monday.

One of the hardest things in life is to recognise one's own vulnerability, Pope Francis said during Mass on Friday at the Santa Marta residence where he lives inside the Vatican.

Christians and non-Christians must be united in the fight against corruption, a "cancer that consumes us", Pope Francis said Thursday.