Ella Ide

2 weeks ago | japantoday.com | Clément Melki |Alice Ritchie |Ella Ide

Pope Leo XIV set the tone for his papacy with a call to stop exploiting nature and marginalizing the poor at his inaugural mass Sunday attended by dignitaries including Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. Vice President JD Vance. Ten days after he became the first U.S. head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, some 200,000 people gathered to see his inaugural mass in St Peter's Square, according to the Vatican.

1 month ago | japantoday.com | Ella Ide |Umberto Bacchi |Alice Ritchie

Robert Francis Prevost, 69, became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday after cardinals from around the globe chose him as the first American leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. A crowd tens of thousands erupted in prayer and emotion as Leo, successor to the late Francis, appeared on the balcony of St Peter's Basilica to deliver the first address of his ministry. "To all people, wherever they are, to all peoples, to the whole Earth, peace be with you," a smiling Leo told the crowd.

1 month ago | ibtimes.com | Ella Ide |Umberto Bacchi |Alice Ritchie

Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday after cardinals from around the globe chose him as the first American leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. A crowd tens of thousands erupted in prayer and emotion as Leo, successor to the late Francis, appeared on the balcony of St Peter's Basilica to deliver the first address of his ministry. "To all people, wherever they are, to all peoples, to the whole Earth, peace be with you," a smiling Leo told the crowd.

1 month ago | barrons.com | Ella Ide |Umberto Bacchi |Alice Ritchie

Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday after cardinals from around the globe chose him as the first American leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. A crowd tens of thousands erupted in prayer and emotion as Leo, successor to the late Francis, appeared on the balcony of St Peter's Basilica to deliver the first address of his ministry. "To all people, wherever they are, to all peoples, to the whole Earth, peace be with you," a smiling Leo told the crowd.

1 month ago | modernghana.com | Ella Ide |Umberto Bacchi |Alice Ritchie

Cardinals chose a new pope to lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Thursday, sending up white smoke from the Sistine Chapel on their second day of voting in conclave. Tens of thousands of people packed in St Peter's Square cheered, applauded and wept as the smoke appeared, while the bells of St Peter's Basilica and churches across Rome rang out.