Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, to become prefect of the department responsible for all of the Catholic ...

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Two attempts to assassinate Pope Francis when he made a historic visit to northern Iraq were foiled by British spies and police inside the country, Francis has revealed in his new autobiography.

Pope Francis attended a prayer service in Mosul's Old City during the visit A plot to assassinate Pope Francis during a trip to Iraq was stopped following a tip-off from British intelligence ...

Pope Francis has claimed a plot to assassinate him during a 2021 visit to Iraq involving two suicide bombers was foiled thanks to the intervention of British intelligence and Iraqi security forces.

British intelligence helped foil an assassination plot on Pope Francis, he has written in his autobiography. According to excerpts from his upcoming autobiography, two suicide bombers planned to ...

Pope Francis became the first Catholic pontiff to visit Mosul in the war-torn country three years ago, in most likely the riskiest foreign trip of his 11-year papacy. Writing in his upcoming ...

Security forces thwarted a pair of assassination attempts against Pope Francis — including a suicide bomber — during his March 2021 visit to Iraq, the pontiff shared in his new memoir.

Pope Francis was the target of a suicide bombing plot in Iraq in 2021 that was foiled with the help of British intelligence, the pontiff has revealed in his autobiography. To mark his 88th ...

ROME — Pope Francis turned 88 on Tuesday and marked the occasion with revelations that he almost didn’t make it. According to excerpts of his upcoming autobiography, suicide bombers had ...

but a foiled assassination plot has enabled Pope Francis to write about the event in retrospect. "Almost everyone advised me against that trip," he wrote in his autobiography, reflecting on a 2021 ...

Suicide bombers had planned to attack Pope Francis on a trip to Iraq in 2021, but were killed before they could strike, according to his autobiography. British intelligence informed Iraqi police ...