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As the two leaders spoke, dozens of pro- and anti-Xi protesters gathered near the White House grounds, waving flags, beating drums and shouting slogans.

Holguin – On Monday, Pope Francis celebrated Mass in the Eastern Cuba city of Holguin becoming the first Pope to visit the city where the Castro brothers and leaders of Cuba, Fidel and Raul, grew up.

The Bishop of Rome presented the Cuban leader with a collection of theological books, and Fidel Castro gave the Pope an autographed copy of the book “Fidel and Religion” by the Brazilian theologian Frei Betto.

He reminded Congress of its responsibility to “protect and defend human life at every stage of its development”.

The poor fare worst because they are “forced to live off what is discarded and suffer unjustly from the abuse of the environment”, he said.He appealed for peace around the world and made his latest plea for the protection of Christians, as well as others, persecuted...

Like five million children living in the USA, Sofia fears that she could be separated from her parents due to their differing immigration statuses. I’m an American citizen of Mexican origin.

The pope’s stroll in Central Park marked another generation of the Kuhn family seeing a pontiff in person.

Ahead of his first USA visit, Pope Francis celebrated mass in Cuba Sunday before hundreds of thousands of worshipers in Havana’s Revolution Square.

As we greet the Pope in the United States this week, LGBT Catholics and our allies are hoping and praying that the Pope will listen to his flock – and take a stand for Christ-like love and acceptance. I believed if I could authentically capture the essence of that inner...

Presidents Obama and Xi agree that the USA and China won’t steal corporate secrets from each other, but the wording is so full of loopholes that CISOs shouldn’t take too much comfort in the pact for quite a while.

The security surrounding Francis has been extraordinarily tight, particularly for a pontiff who prizes interacting with everyday people. “Immigration, the environment, it all comes to being compassionate, for others”.

More lined the streets as his motorcade traveled to the Capitol, where thousands waited on the Mall to watch his speech on giant screens. He was at the White House on Wednesday for the Pope’s address there and joined the throngs on the Mall in D.C. He describes the...

Pope Francis has been called a rock star among religious leaders and soon that will be true literally, with the pontiff out soon with an album. “In practical terms, this absolute minimum has three names: lodging, labor and land”, Francis said to applause.

But Francis did make a point of going over to Secretary of State John Kerry and shaking his hand.

During the Mass at Madison Square Garden, Francis focused his homily on life in big cities populated by many forgotten or “second-class” citizens.