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Prime Minister Boyko Borisov will send Pope Francis to Sofia Airport today (7 May), which marks the end of the apostolic journey of the Holy Father in Bulgaria.

From Sofia, the head of the Roman Catholic Church goes to Skopje.

Pope Francis ministered on Tuesday to the thriving Catholic community in the United Arab Emirates as he concluded his historic visit to the Arabian Peninsula with the first-ever papal Mass here.

Pope Francis on Monday assailed the "insatiable greed" of today's consumerism, calling on people in his Christmas homily to make "sharing and giving" more a part of their live, reports AFP. 

"Mankind became greedy and voracious," the leader of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics said in an address to thousands of followers in Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome.

Human remains have been discovered at a Rome property owned by the Vatican, the Holy See said Tuesday, in a potential breakthrough for police investigating one of Italy's darkest mysteries.

Pope Francis retired to spiritual seclusion outside the Vatican. 

He will take part in the so-called "Spiritual Exercises" with Cardinals and other high-ranking members of the Roman Curia - the administrative apparatus of the Holy See.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Tuesday that Dacic decided to return to the country on Tuesday after meeting with Secretary for Relations with States of the Holy See Paul Gallagher and State Secretary of the Holy See Cardinal Pietro Parolin.

Pope Francis has issued an order to ban the sale of cigarettes on the Vatican's territory in 2018, Curia spokesman Greg Burke said on Thursday.

Greek actor Gerasimos Skiadaresis plays the role of a Catholic Cardinal and participates in some explicit sex scenes with young girls in a Netflix TV series called “Subbura” which deals with the Vatican sex scandals. The Greek, play Cardinal Theodosius, can be seen in orgies with girls while in other scenes he can be seen performing self-flagellation and taking hard drugs.

The Vatican's first auditor-general, who resigned without explanation in June, has broken his silence, saying he was forced to step down with trumped-up accusations after discovering evidence of possible illegal activity.

The Vatican on Friday said it has recalled one of its diplomats from Washington after the U.S. State Department said the priest may have violated child pornography laws, Reuters reports.

Prosecutors in the Vatican have opened an investigation into the case and the priest has already returned to Vatican City, a statement said.