Pope moves against Secretariat of State amid finance scandal
Rome, ItalyAP Pope Francis is giving the Vatican Secretariat of State three months to transfer all of its financial holdings to another Vatican office following its bungled management of hundreds of millions of euros in donations and investments that are now the subject of a corruption investigation. Francis summoned the Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro […]
US Secretary of State says protecting targets of IS ‘genocide’ a religious freedom priority
RNS Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks on the release of the 2016 annual report on International Religious Freedom on 15th August, 2017, at the State Department in Washington, DC. PICTURE: AP Photo/Susan Walsh. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson underlined the nation’s commitment to protecting religious and ethnic groups targeted by the so-called […]