Pope Francis called for Vatican bureaucrats to embrace change during his annual Christmas greetings’Today we are no longer the only ones that produce culture, no longer the first nor the most listened to,’ Francis told the prelates
2 min read21 Dec 2019The Pope began his Sunday Angelus by apologizing for arriving several minutes late to the noon audienceHe asked the crowd to applaud his rescuers before continuing with the weekly blessing
1 min read1 Sep 2019Pope Francis will deliver his sixth Urbi et Orbi address on Tuesday, Christmas Day -- when Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ -- to pilgrims gathered in Saint Peter’s Square
3 min read25 Dec 2018Catholic bishop Franco Mullakal will be summoned on 19 September by the Kerala police
2 min read12 Sep 2018Hundreds gathered outside Rome’s Colosseum to hear the husband and daughter of Asia Bibi, who has been on death row in Pakistan on charges of blasphemy
1 min read25 Feb 2018Barack Obama came out on top of the annual Gallup survey for the 10th year in a row while Hillary Clinton was named the most admired woman for the 16th straight year
1 min read28 Dec 2017Pope Francis in his Christmas eve mass urges Catholics not to ignore the plight of migrants as tensions simmered in the West Bank following US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
4 min read25 Dec 2017Pope Francis called on Myanmar’s top Buddhist monks to conquer ’prejudice and hatred’ in a country ravaged by communal divisions
3 min read29 Nov 2017Pope Francis implicitly criticized the US for pulling out of the Paris agreement on climate change, praising the deal as a means to control the devastating effects of global warming
1 min read16 Oct 2017Pope Francis says that when he was 42, he had weekly sessions with a Jewish psychoanalyst to ’clarify some things’, as per a soon-to-be-published book
1 min read1 Sep 2017The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared