The patriarch tried to resist, ending in a friendly tussle won by the Pope. On the same trip, at Israel's Holocaust Memorial, Francis was invited to shake hands with Holocaust survivors.

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(AP Video by Helena Alves, Syawalludin Zain and Fadlan Syam) A man stands near a banner showing East Timor’s President Jose ...

who compared lining up to shake the Pope's hand to children waiting to meet Father Christmas. MORE ON THE POPE: ・Pope Francis slammed after saying he wouldn't admit gay men into seminaries as ...

Pope Francis on Thursday made a plea for migrant workers to be paid fairly, as he visited the affluent city-state of ...

1989 file photo shows Pope John Paul II shaking hands with flag-waving local students upon his arrival in Dili, East Timor. Pope Francis will clock 32,814 kilometers by air during the Sept.

Some shake the Pope’s hand, others don’t ... saying he feels “strengthened” by Pope Francis on the matter despite opposition from the Vatican’s highest doctrinal official.

Pope Francis reassured the comics that making ... Mr O'Brien humorously likened the experience of queuing to shake the Pope's ...

After blessing the elderly on his last day in Singapore, Pope Francis told an assembly of ... opportunity to see the pope up close and shake his hand as he passed by them in the corridors of ...

Despite these challenges and this intellectual ferment, though, Francis’s efforts to shake up the ... his meeting with Pope Francis holding what is, objectively, a weaker hand than the pope ...

The ageing pope was not set to attend any public ... walked slowly around the back of the aircraft, chatting and shaking hands. Francis, who is not only the leader of the world's 1.4 billion ...

Pope Francis addresses elderly and sick people ... wheelchairs seized the opportunity to see the pope up close and shake his hand as he passed by them in the corridors of the country’s oldest ...