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After pizza, prayer and baptisms, Pope set to leave hospital Saturday

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis paid a surprise visit to children in a cancer ward on Friday, even baptising a baby, as he prepared to leave the hospital where he has been undergoing treatment for three days.

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After pizza and prayer, Pope set to leave hospital Saturday

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis is expected to return home on Saturday after what will have been three nights in hospital with bronchitis, and will attend Palm Sunday services, the Vatican said.

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Pope feeling better, set to leave hospital Saturday

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis is expected to be discharged on Saturday after what will have been three nights of hospital treatment for bronchitis, and will attend Palm Sunday services, the Vatican said Friday.

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Pope's health improving, hopes rise of leaving hospital soon

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis spent a peaceful second night in hospital for treatment of bronchitis, a Vatican source said Friday, as a senior cardinal said the 86-year-old could be discharged as soon as Saturday.

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Vatican rejects doctrine used to justify colonial abuse

Vatican City (AFP) - The Catholic Church took a fresh step Thursday in acknowledging abuse endured by Indigenous peoples with the Vatican formally rejecting 15th-century papal edicts that empowered Europeans to colonise non-Christian lands.

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Pope on the mend as antibiotics target bronchitis

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis spent a peaceful second night in hospital for treatment of bronchitis, a Vatican source said Friday, after doctors reported a "marked improvement" in the 86-year-old's condition.

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Hospitalised pope improving after antiobiotics for bronchitis: Vatican

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis has bronchitis but is showing a "marked improvement" after being treated with antibiotics and could be discharged from hospital "in the coming days", medical staff said Thursday.

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Pope working from hospital room as health improves

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis felt well enough to work from his hospital room Thursday, though it was not clear how long he would stay after he was admitted with a respiratory infection.

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Pope 'improving' after night in hospital with breathing issues

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis's health is improving after spending a night in hospital with a respiratory infection, the Vatican announced Thursday, saying the 86-year-old had eaten breakfast, read the newspapers and even done some work.

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Pope spends 'good night' in hospital after breathing issues

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis spent a calm night in hospital, a Vatican source said Thursday, a day after the 86-year-old was admitted with breathing difficulties and diagnosed with a respiratory infection.

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Pope Francis spends night in hospital after breathing issues

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis spent the night in hospital in Rome, where the 86-year-old will continue receiving treatment on Thursday for what the Vatican has said is a respiratory infection.

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Pope Francis in hospital for respiratory infection

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis, 86, was admitted to a hospital in Rome on Wednesday with a respiratory infection that will require a stay of a few days, the Vatican said.

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Pope Francis in hospital, events cancelled

Vatican City (AFP) - The Vatican said Wednesday that Pope Francis, 86, was in hospital in Rome for previously scheduled health checks, before later cancelling his Thursday appointments.

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Pope greets refugees helped through Christian 'corridors'

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis on Saturday greeted thousands of refugees brought to Europe by Christian charities, recognising their difficult journeys and hailing their desire to "live free from fear and insecurity".

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Pope marks 10 years with podcast and a diplomatic row

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis marked 10 years as head of the Catholic Church on Monday with a podcast, a private mass and a series of interviews, one of which triggered a diplomatic spat with Nicaragua.

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Pope Francis: the first post-colonial papacy to deliver messages that resonate with Africans

When he was presented to a cheering crowd at St Peter’s Square, Vatican City, on 13 March 2013, few people outside Latin America knew much about Jorge Bergoglio.

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Pope resignations should not be the norm: Francis

Vatican City (AFP) - The resignation of a pope should not become the norm within the Catholic Church, and that prospect is not "on my agenda", Pope Francis said in an interview published Thursday.

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Pope Francis faces 'civil war' at heart of church

Vatican City (AFP) - From his reforms to his foreign relations, criticism of Pope Francis has intensified since the death of his predecessor Benedict XVI, revealing a climate of "civil war" at a time when the Catholic Church is engaged in a global conversation about its future.

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Pope visits conflict-ridden central Africa, first stop DR Congo

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis embarked on his fifth visit to Africa on Tuesday, flying to the Democratic Republic of Congo and then South Sudan to plead for peace in the two violence-plagued nations.

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Funeral held for controversial Australian cardinal Pell

Vatican City (AFP) - Several dozen people including bishops, cardinals and archbishops turned out for the funeral of the controversial Cardinal George Pell in the Vatican on Saturday.

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Benedict's confidant spills beans on two-popes tension

Vatican City (AFP) - Just one week after the funeral of Benedict XVI, his closest aide released a much-trailed memoir Thursday, revealing details of tensions between the late pope emeritus and his more liberal successor Pope Francis.

Newcastle Herald

Cardinal George Pell dies aged 81

Pell died in Vatican City.

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The Vatican has reopened the investigation into the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi. Here's the latest on her case

Emanuela Orlandi, who lived in the Vatican City as the daughter of an employee, was 15 years old when she went missing. The mystery of her case has gripped Italy for decades.

Daily Mirror

Little-known passport rule that may stop you travelling to Europe

The new rules apply to travel from the UK to almost all EU countries as well as Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City

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Pope Francis leads final farewell to Benedict before thousands

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis led the funeral of his predecessor Benedict XVI on Thursday in front of tens of thousands of mourners in St Peter's Square, an event unprecedented in modern times.

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