The audience and the statement from the Rome diocese, they said, demonstrate that “the church isn’t interested at all in the victims and those who ask for justice.”

Pope Francis has condemned the use of “conventional weapons” against civilian targets in a message to Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson the day after a warehouse in Ukraine containing several tons of...

“Pope Francis recalled his meeting with Patriarch Kirill in Havana warmly, and expressed the hope that it will not be the last, that he can see the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church again,” Ivan...