(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has visited the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, to convey to him his Christmas greetings.

The visit took place on Friday afternoon ...

On Sunday, at noon on Christmas day, Pope Francis will deliver his annual Christmas message, ahead of the traditional blessing Urbi et orbi: of the ...

(Vatican Radio) Thanks to Pope Francis over 2 million people affected by the humanitarian crisis in eastern Ukraine will receive a first installment of much ...

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received employees of the Holy See’s curial dicasteries and Vatican offices on Thursday morning, along with their families, for an ...

(Vatican Radio)  Pope Francis invited the Roman Curia to embrace the process of reform on Thursday, telling them Christmas is “the feast of the loving ...

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Thursday received in audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B., Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, authorizing ...

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Wednesday urged the faithful to open their hearts to the Good News of the Saviour’s birth.

The Pope was ...

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has appealed to all people of the Democratic Republic of Congo to be artisans of reconciliation and peace. 

The Pope’s ...

(Vatican Radio)  Pope Francis has commuted the jail sentence of a Spanish priest who was convicted of leaking Vatican documents and ordered that he be ...

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a telegramme of condolences to the Archbishop of Berlin in which he says he is praying for the dead ...

(Vatican Radio) The Holy See on Saturday published the motivations of the sentence that found Spanish Msgr. Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda guilty of leaking Vatican ...

(Vatican Radio)  Five restorers from the Vatican Museums are working to salvage works of art in churches and towns damaged in recent earthquakes in central ...

(Vatican Radio)  In his fourth and last Advent sermon of the Christmas season, Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the Pontifical Household, reflected Friday on ...

There are some changes in the radio frequencies of Vatican Radio’s English Service for Asia, effective from Saturday, December 24, 2016.  The ‎timings however ...

(Vatican Radio)  Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See, told the UN Security Council ‘the biggest single factor that facilitates ...

(Vatican Radio)  Pope Francis has appointed a new Director of the Vatican Museums, Barbara Jatta, who is set to take up the post on 1 ...

(Vatican Radio) Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in New York, Archbishop Bernardito Auza delivered a statement  to ...

(Vatican Radio) The Papal preacher, Father Raniero Cantalamessa, delivered his third Advent Sermon on Friday to Pope Francis and members of the Roman Curia.

As ...

Pontifical Acts in the Daily Bulletin of the Holy See Press Office

(Vatican Radio) Germany has expressed relief after Italian police confirmed that they shot dead the man believed to be responsible for this week's Berlin ...

Christ the Messiah, the giver of “new life” comes in three ways: He came 2016 years ago; He will come at the end of time ...

The Catholic Bishop of Nsukka diocese in Nigeria, Godfrey Onah says that Christians and Nigerians must continue to be joyful at Christmas even though things ...

About 1,500 Christians, mostly Catholics, and a good number of Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists exchanged Christmas greetings with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who as ...

The Catholic Bishops of Kenya on Thursday 22 Dec. called for dialogue after a bill to change the current electoral law was hastily passed in ...

A missionary in the Philippines is urging people of the predominantly Catholic nation to protect the environment during the Christmas season.  "We must think of ...

(Vatican Radio)  The Catholic lay community Sant’Egidio is gearing up for its traditional Christmas lunch for the poor, marginalized and homeless.  Sant’Egidio first ...

Vatican Weekend for December 25th, 2016 features a Christmas sacred music special presented by music historian, Monsignor Philip Whitmore.

Vatican Weekend for December 24, 2016 features “No Crib for a Bed,” our traditional Christmas Play by Jill Bevilacqua, set in the year 1223 when ...

Christmas is just a couple of days away – this Sunday.  And in view of the festivities ahead, we thought of hearing from Bangladesh’s new ...