A medical update on Pope Francis‘ health reveals he is being treated with antibiotics, that he is responding positively, and that he could be discharged from hospital in a few days.

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The upcoming plenary meeting of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors will address matters that include the entity's effectiveness. A statement issued by the President of the Commission notes that "the protection of children and vulnerable persons remains at the heart of the Church's mission."

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Pope Francis releases his prayer intention for the month of April, and urges everyone to pray and work for a non-violent culture which promotes peace.

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The Archbishop of Chicago asks believers of all faiths to remember Pope Francis in their prayers as he recovers from a pulmonary infection in hospital.

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JRS UK releases a report on the inhumane conditions of residents in the Napier Barracks a disused army base in Kent which as been converted into an asylum accommodation, urging the British Government to close it and to provide asylum seekers with safe and dignified accommodation.

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A Holy See Press Office statement says Pope Francis‘s health is improving as he remains in hospital for treatment for a pulmonary infection.

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The Cardinal Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education comments on the Vatican Statement that stigmatises ancient colonialist behaviour, reaffirming that it has never been part of the Church's teachings.

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The Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development comments on the Joint Statement on the "Doctrine of Discovery", published on 30 March 2023, highlighting the fact that it denotes the recognition of a historical attitude that continues to have effects today.

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A “Joint Statement” from the Dicastery for Culture and the Dicastery for Integral Human Development formally repudiates "those concepts that fail to recognize the inherent human rights of indigenous peoples, including what has become known as the legal and political ‘doctrine of discovery’."

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A recently released UNICEF report reveals that ten million children in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are in dire need of humanitarian assistance, and that spiralling conflict is causing hostilities to spill over into neighbouring nations triggering a widening crisis with far-reaching consequences.

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On Wednesday afternoon, Pope Francis goes to Gemelli for a check-up

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Composer Marcello Filotei's work based on Haydn's "Seven Last Words of Jesus on the Cross", commissioned and realized by Vatican Radio, is presented in the run-up to its world radio premiere on Good Friday.

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A truckload of medicines, generators and other items that departed Italy on Saturday arrives this morning in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Volunteers prepared the shipment at Rome's Church of Santa Sophia together with help from the Office of Papal Charities.

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In the face of increasing attacks targeting Christian communities in the Holy Land, amid ongoing political tensions, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem says the Church will not allow a few extremists to dictate its agenda and will continue to promote peace and reconciliation.

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Cardinal Kurt Koch will lay a wreath at a service to commemorate the anti-Communist Candle Demonstration, which was organised by Catholic dissidents.

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Pope Francis sends a telegram to the Bishop of Nashville, expressing his sadness for the most recent in a series of deadly school shootings to shake the United States.

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Pope Francis asks for prayers for the victims of a fire in a migrant processing centre in Mexico.

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St. Paul's conversion teaches us that it is never too late to let Jesus completely change and transform your life, insists Pope Francis during his Wednesday General Audience in the Vatican as he continued his series of catecheses on apostolic zeal, focusing this week specifically on St. Paul.

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A new initiative by the Fabbrica di San Pietro will make it easier for pilgrims to enter Saint Peter's Basilica to receive the Sacraments.

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At least 39 people have died and dozens more were injured in a fire at a detention centre for migrants in the Mexican city of Juarez on the US border.

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