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Pope meets women prisoners in Venice, first trip in months
Pope Francis on Sunday visited a prison for women in Venice ahead of a mass in the watery city representing the 87-year-old pontiff's first trip outside Rome for seven months.
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Pope Francis travels to Venice to attend Biennale
Sunday's trip to Venice is the first time the pope has traveled since his visit to Marseille in September. The 87-year-old has had several health issues that recently forced him to cancel travel ...
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Pope visits women’s prison in Venice and tours Vatican show at art Biennale
Pope Francis, 87, met inmates, staff and volunteers at Giudecca jail during first trip outside Rome for months The pope has met female prisoners in Venice who are stars of the Vatican’s pavilion ...
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Pope visits Venice to speak to artists and inmates and finds a city taxing day-trippers like him
Pope Francis is traveling to Venice to visit the Holy See’s pavilion for this year’s Venice Biennale. It’s a first for a pope, and has given the 60th edition of Pope visits Venice to speak to artists ...
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Pope visits Venice to speak to the artists and inmates behind the Biennale's must-see prison show
VENICE, Italy (AP) — Venice has always been a place of contrasts, of breathtaking beauty and devastating fragility, where history, religion, art and nature have collided over the centuries to ...
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Pope holds mass in Venice's St Mark's, first trip in months
The pope's visit came during the same weekend that Venice launched a new five-euro ($5.35) entry fee for day trippers, aimed at easing the pressure of tourism on the UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Pope makes landmark visit to Venice Biennale and proclaims that ‘the world needs artists’
Along with the trip to the female prison, Francis also held a meeting with young people, presided at an open-air Mass in St. Mark’s Square, led the Sunday midday prayer, and prayed in front of ...
Stephen Colbert and Whoopi Goldberg Met the Pope in the Vatican. No Joke.
Francis hosted an audience with over 100 comic entertainers, also including Chris Rock, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Conan O’Brien ...
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Pope Francis clears way for Italian teen Carlo Acutis to become first millennial saint
Pope Francis cleared the way Thursday for an Italian teenager who faithfully cataloged Catholic miracles online before dying in 2006 to become the first millennial saint. The Vatican attributed a ...
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Pope’s first-ever Indonesia trip to be centred in Jakarta
JAKARTA: Pope Francis’ activities during his upcoming visit to Indonesia in September will be centered in Jakarta, a representative from the Indonesian Bishop’s Conference (KWI) has said.
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Pope visits Venice to speak to the artists and inmates behind the Biennale’s must-see prison show
VENICE, Italy (AP) — Venice has always been a place of contrasts, of breathtaking beauty and devastating fragility, where history, religion, art and nature have collided over the centuries to ...