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VATICAN CITY: Journalism based on gossip or rumors is a form of "terrorism" and media that stereotype entire populations or foment fear of migrants are acting destructively, Pope Francis said on Thursday.
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Monday condemned the Easter suicide bomb by extremist militants that killed at least 70 people in Lahore, many of them Christians, as “hideous” and demanded that the country’s authorities protect religious minorities.
PESHAWAR/ROME: Italian authorities have been keeping eight Pakistani nationals under custody on suspicion of terrorism activities, while one of them was arrested only because his nephew's name was Osama, ARY News reported.
ROME: People being investigated in a counter-terrorism investigation in Italy may have been planning an attack against the Vatican, one of the prosecutors leading the probe said on Friday.
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Sunday condemned two suicide attacks on churches in Pakistan and accused the world of "seeking to hide" the persecution of Christians.
SEOUL: Pope Francis arrived in the South Korean capital Seoul on Thursday, where he will spend five days traveling around the country and meeting some of South Korea's five million Catholics on the first trip by a pontiff to Asia since 1999.
ROME: About two percent of Roman Catholic clerics are sexual abusers, an Italian newspaper on Sunday quoted Pope Francis as saying, adding that the pontiff considered the crime "a leprosy in our house".