MNA In response to Irans call for Vaticans intervention to halt US sanctions amid the coronavirus outbreak, the Catholic Church has talked with US officials on the issue. Back in mid-March, Ayatollah Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad, who is a senior member of the Academy of Sciences of Iran, had sent a letter to Pope Francis calling on him to ...

MNA In the wake of massive flooding in Iran, Pope Francis sent 100,000 euros (about $113,000) for emergency aid, according to an April 12 press release by Vatican. The donation sent through the Vaticans office for the Promotion of Integral Human Development, is intended as an immediate expression of the feeling of spiritual closeness on the part ...

Tehran, June 13, IRNA - Vice-President for Women and Family Affairs Shahindokht Molaverdi said that cooperation with Vatican is of great importance in Iran's foreign policy. Speaking in a meeting with the President of the Holy See's Pontifical Council for the Family, and bishop emeritus of the diocese of Terni-Narni-Amelia in Italy Vincenzo Paglia,...

Tehran, February 6,The Iran Project In a meeting with visiting delegation of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, a senior cleric expresses Iran's readiness to enhance ties with the Vatican religious body, voicing concern over the situation ofSyrian refugees in Europe. Ayatollah Seyyed Hashem Hosseini Boushehri, who heads Irans ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) The Latest on Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's visit to Europe (all times local): 2:10 p.m. The Vatican says Iran now should play a role in combatting terrorism as Tehran becomes a regional player to resolve Middle East conflicts. 1:10 p.m. Iran's president has asked Pope Francis to pray for him after private talks ...

Rome, Jan 26, IRNA President Hassan Rouhani arrived in the Vatican City to meet Pope Francis here on Tuesday. The visit is the first meeting of an Iranian president with leader of the Catholic Christians after 16 years. President Rouhani has arrived in Italy on the first leg of his trip to three European destinations following the implementation ...

Pope Francis named two Palestinian women as saints on Sunday, in a ceremony in Saint Peter's Square just days after the Vatican formalized its de facto recognition of the State of Palestine. The canonization of Sister Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, founder of the Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of Jerusalem, and Maryam Baouardy, who founded a Carmelite ...

The Vatican has become the latest country to recognize the state of Palestine, after a new treaty was finalized on Wednesday. Unsurprisingly Israel has hit out at the move, saying that it damages prospects for peace in the region. The treaty, which was agreed, though has yet to be formally signed states the Vatican has switched its diplomatic allegiance ...

[caption id="attachment_155311" align="alignright" width="264"] Iran's Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati and Vatican`s Minister of Culture, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi on Thursday underlined expansion of mutual cooperation.[/caption] Rome, March 13, IRNA Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati and Vatican`s Minister ...

Rome, Feb 13, IRNA Vatican's Pontificial Council for the Family has welcomed bilateral cooperation with Iran on family affairs. The President of Pontificial Council for the Family Vincenzo Paglia, in a joint press conference with Vice President in Women and Family Affairs Shahindokht Molawerdi expressed hope for further bilateral cooperation and ...

The Vatican says Iran should be invited to the upcoming international conference on Syria crisis later this month. To build the basis for regional peace, Geneva II needs to ensure inclusive participation of all parties...within the region and beyond, the Vatican said in a statement published on Tuesday. The Vatican also called for an immediate ceasefire ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Vatican will host a brainstorming workshop on Jan 13 about how to achieve a cease-fire in Syria so humanitarian aid can be delivered and how to end persecution of Christians there. The Pontifical Academy of Sciences has lined up experts from the United States, Russia and elsewhere. Speakers include Tony Blair, the former British ...

(Reuters) - An "unholy alliance" ofIran,Russia, the Vatican and others is threatening to derail a U.N. declaration urging an end to violence against women and girls by objecting to language on sexual, reproductive and gay rights, some U.N. diplomats said Wednesday. Delegates to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women are racing to reach ...

The Vatican,Iranand other religious states are resisting efforts by a UN conference, which started Monday, to demand tougher global standards to prevent violence against women and children. More than 6,000 non-government groups are registered at the annual UN Commission on the Status of Women, one of the biggest events held at the UN headquarters ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican is dismissing Mehmet Ali Agca's latest claim about who ordered him to assassinate Pope John Paul II. The Turkish gunman, who has changed his account many times, writes in "They Promised Me Paradise," released Thursday in Italy, that Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered the killing and that he was ...