Pope Francis asserts there is no migrant crisis in Europe.

Pope Francis urged French President Emmanuel Macron and other European leaders on Saturday to open their ports to people fleeing hardship and poverty, insisting that the continent is not confronting a migration "emergency" but rather a long-term reality that governments must treat human...

POPE FRANCIS FIRST VISIT TO IRAQ IN THE PANDEMIC, SIGNALED TO THE MOST HISTORIC EVENT AS A SIGN OF REGIONAL PEACE

HIGHLIGHTS

• Pope Francis will turn into the primary pope to visit Iraq one year from now, in an outing to five spots, including Baghdad, Erbil, and Mosul between March 5 and March 8, the Vatican said

The program of the excursion will be made kno...

PM NARENDRA MODI'S POPULARITY SOARS, BECOMES SECOND MOST FOLLOWED LEADER ON TWITTER

Highlights

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi now has 57.9 million followers on Twitter more than Pope Francis

• The U.S. President Donald Trump has over 81.1 million followers on Twitter

• In terms of true reach, PM Modi tops the list as his tweets reach ...

NOW ITS CHURCH VS CORONA AS POPE FRANCIS JOINS THE FIGHT BY DONATING RESPIRATORS

Highlights

• The Vatican commences tests related to covid-19

• Pope Francis was first to be tested, but found negative 

• Preventive measures taken by the Vatican to safeguard Pope and other priests

Pope Francis has made donations of 30 respirators to the h...

Learning from Christmas

Christmas is an opportunity to return to encouraging stories and customs. Thus, this Yuletide, I feel a glow on coming back to World Politics Review to examine the story of the Three Magi. Five years prior, while composing a week after week segment for WPR, I utilized a bubbly piece to make light...

Riverdance 25th years of Riverdance

THE iconic clack was deafening as boots struck the sprung floor in sync at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre, with an excited crowd clapping and pulling.

The Riverdance troupe's dancers danced and spun in perfect time to break their finals, still overflowing for two hours of energy.

Nagasaki looks forward to the visit by the pope

Pope Francis intends to begin his official tour to Japan from Nagasaki. This is only appropriate considering how it is the city where Christianity was first introduced to the nation and where, about 500 years later, there still lingers the blood-drenched symbolism, political and religious both.