Updated: Pilgrims brave scorching heat for Pope’s vigil in Lisbon after Francis ditches Fatima peace prayer
Updated: 8:15am, 6th August, 2023 (AEST)Lisbon, Portugal AP An estimated 1.5 million young people filled a field in the Portuguese capital Lisbon on Saturday for Pope Francis’ World Youth Day vigil, braving scorching heat to secure a spot for the evening prayer and to camp out overnight for his final farewell Mass on Sunday morning. […]
Pope Francis will be in Portugal for five days. Here’s what he will visit
Lisbon, Portugal AP Pope Francis begins a five-day trip to Portugal on Wednesday for World Youth Day, the international Catholic jamboree that is expected to gather around one million people. While in Portugal, Francis will visit the place from where 15th- and 16th-century Portuguese explorers set sail on world-changing voyages to Africa, Asia and South America, a church and […]
Pope to Portugal for bittersweet ‘Catholic Woodstock’ of the young
Lisbon, PortugalReuters Hundreds of thousands of young people from around the world have descended on Portugal to welcome Pope Francis when he arrives on Wednesday to close a jamboree dubbed “the Catholic Woodstock”. However, the shadow of the church’s sexual abuse scandal will haunt the background as a reminder of how much work it still […]
Vatican confirms August trip by Pope to Lisbon for World Youth Day, including Fatima stop
Rome, ItalyAP Pope Francis will travel to Portugal for World Youth Day in the first week of August and include a stop at the popular Marian shrine in Fatima, the Vatican said Monday. The 2nd to 6th August visit is longer than originally expected and covers almost the entire week of the big Catholic rally […]
As war rages, Ukrainian joins thousands in Portugal to pray for peace
Fatima, PortugalReuters Armed with a candle and a blue and yellow flag, Karina Potomkina, a Ukrainian who has been watching her country being ravaged by war from afar, joined tens thousands of faithful in Portugal on Thursday evening to pray for peace. Potomkina, a 42-year-old who moved from the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia to Lisbon […]
On the Screen: ‘Fatima’ a sympathetic retelling of a century old story of faith
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Chicago’s Soldier Field rolls out blue carpet for drive-in screening of movie ‘Fatima’
Chicago, USRNS The iconic Soldier Field, home to the Chicago Bears, was unusually packed for a summer night. But the crowd wasn’t there to see a football game. They were there to see a miracle – or, at least, a film about one. Bishop Joseph N Perry speaks at a screening of ‘Fatima’ at Soldier […]