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Pope Francis will stop in Cuba on his way to Mexico next week to hold a historic meeting with Patriarch Kirill of the RussianOrthodox Church, the Vatican said on Feb. 5.

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The head of the Catholic Church is very interested in resolving the controversial issue of the canonization of Croat WW2-era Catholic cleric Alojzije Stepinac.

Pope Francis on Jan. 17 welcomed 5,000 migrant worshippers at a special mass at St Peter's to mark the world day of migrants and refugees, urging them to treasure their "culture and precious values".

Former U.S. president George W. Bush may no longer be able to change the course of history - but it has not stopped others trying for him.

Lech Walesa, a national hero 26 years ago for his role in ending Communist rule in Poland as the leader of Solidarity, has little political power in the country today, but he still has his voice. Last week he raised it, to condemn the new Polish government that emerged from last October's election.
   

Slovenians have rejected by a large margin a bill giving same-sex couples the right to marry and adopt children in a referendum held on Sunday, STA reported.

Slovenian voters are casting ballots in a referendum that might turn it into the first Slavic, ex-Yugoslav and ex-socialist country to legalize gay marriage.

Pope Francis has signed off on the miracle needed to make Mother Teresa a saint, giving the nun who cared for the poorest of the poor one of the Catholic Church's highest honors just two decades after her death.

Jasna Omejec, president of Croatia's constitutional court, on Wednesday announced the start of a constitutional review of the law on medical measures, which allows abortion until the 10th week of pregnancy.

The mainly Catholic country inherited the law of 1978 from communist Yugoslavia.