Read the full text of Pope Francis' address given during an ecumenical prayer meeting with migrants in Nicosia, Cyprus, on December 3, 2021.
Read the full text of Pope Francis' homily delivered at Mass in Nicosia on December 3, 2021, during his apostolic visit to Cyprus.
Read the full text of Pope Francis' address to the Holy Synod of the Cypriot Orthodox Church at the Orthodox Cathedral in Nicosia on December 3, 2021.
Read the full text of Pope Francis' address to authorities, civil society, and the diplomatic corps in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Read the full text of Pope Francis' address to priests, consecrated persons, deacons, catechists, ecclesial associations and movements of Cyprus.
Tonight on perspectives the Holy See announces the end of the case of Vatican leaks and the Holy Father receives the president of Republic of Cyprus
Pope Benedict has repeatedly urged the universal Church to encourage and support Christians in the Holy Land. One way to do this is financially through the collection traditionally taken up on Good Friday. A letter from the prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches Cardinal Leonardo Sandri was released Monday calling on the faithful to […]
Only about 3% of the population of Cyprus is Catholic. But the small community received a big boost last weekend when Pope Benedict XVI became the first Pope to visit the Mediterranean island. This week in the Vatican Report, Catholic News Service’s Cindy Wooden and John Thavis highlight the Holy Father’s visit to Cyprus. To […]
Today in his farewell address at Larnaca airport in Cyprus, the Holy Father made direct reference to the political unrest in Cyprus saying that his accommodations at the Apostolic Nunciature, which is located in the United Nations buffer zone, provided a vantage point from which he witnessed Cyprus’ pronounced division first-hand. “Having stayed these past […]
This afternoon in Cyprus, Pope Benedict addressed the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Cyprus, His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, at the Archbishop’s residence in Nicosia. In his address, Pope Benedict called for “full and visible communion” between the Churches of the East and the West; a communion “to be lived in fidelity to the Gospel and the […]