By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 1314 EAT on Tuesday 22 April 2025 Following tradition, the pontiff’s death was confirmed by the head of the Vatican’s health department and the cardinal chamberlain (camerlengo, in Italian) Kevin Joseph Farrell. He was the first Latin American pope in the Church’s history. The Pope’s body will now…

By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 1303 EAT on Tuesday 22 April 2025 Pope Francis’s coffin will be taken to St Peter’s Basilica tomorrow for the public to pay their respects. He will then be laid to rest in Rome’s Basilica of St Mary Major on Saturday. There’s a steady stream of people going into the…

By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 1337 EAT on Monday 21 April 2025 Ukraine says it was struck by a new barrage of deadly Russian air attacks as an Easter ceasefire ended and as the US pushes for a deal between Moscow and Kyiv to end the three-year-long conflict. At least three people were…

By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 1321 EAT on Monday 21 April 2025 Francis was the first Pope from the Americas or the Southern Hemisphere. Not since Syrian-born Gregory III died in 741 had there been a non-European Bishop of Rome. He was also the first Jesuit to be elected to the throne of…

By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 1800 EAT on Saturday 19 April 2025 Everton 0-0 Man City Jordan Pickford makes an absolute mess of the resulting corner. He misjudges the flight and it goes over him at the back post. However City also get it wrong at the back post. Nico Gonzalez stretches and…

By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 1744 EAT on Saturday 19 April 2025 The US Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to pause the deportation of a group ofalleged Venezuelan gang members. The men are being held in detention in north Texas under an 18th-Century wartime law, and a civil liberties group has…

By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda Updated at 1634 EAT on Friday 18 April 2025 The US will abandon trying to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal within days unless there are clear signs a truce can be reached, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has warned. “We’re not going to continue with this endeavour for weeks…

By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 1555 EAT on Friday 18 April 2025 In their respective Easter Messages, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and the World Council of Churches draw upon the spiritual and historical significance of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea 1,700 years ago, to emphasize unity and their shared tradition…