DILI — Pope Francis on Monday arrived to a rock-star welcome in East Timor, where he will rally the Catholic-majority nation's faithful with a huge Mass that is expected to attract more than half the ...

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CM Yogi Adityanath commemorated Kesavananda Bharati, who was pivotal in the 1973 Supreme Court decision establishing the basic structure doctrine of India's Constitution. Yogi’s homage fits into ...

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But the pontiff offered broad smiles when he got off the plane from Rome on Tuesday, and again appeared refreshed and joyful when he met president Joko Widodo on Wednesday morning in the first ...

The pontiff left Rome on Monday afternoon and was due to land in Jakarta at 11:30 am (around 0430 GMT), the first stop in a 12-day voyage that will also take in Papua New Guinea, East Timor and ...

The Argentinian pontiff, 87, emerged from the aircraft in a wheelchair, which has become an increasingly common sight in the last couple of years. Pope Francis has been suffering from painful ...

In 2019, Francis became the first pontiff to visit the Arabian Peninsula, where, together with the grand imam of al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, he signed a historic interfaith document and ...

The pontiff is expected to be greeted with much fanfare when he arrives in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta in half an hour. Although the country is home to the world's largest Muslim population ...

3, kicking off an 11-day swing through southeast Asia and Oceania that is likely to test the physical limits of the 87-year-old pontiff. Francis left Rome in the early evening of Sept. 2 and ...

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The pontiff left Rome on Monday afternoon and is due to land in Jakarta on Tuesday morning, the first stop in a 12-day voyage that will also take in Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore.