24K views · 3.9K reactions | Pope Francis announces the Year of Prayer, which begins today and will lead us to the Jubilee Year of 2025, saying we must each rediscover the “great value and absolute need” for prayer in all aspects of our lives. Read more: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-01/pope-highlights-the-great-value-and-absolute-need-for-prayer.html | Vatican News | Facebook

13K views · 1.2K reactions | Pope Francis met Friday with a delegation from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, as part of a customary exchange of greetings between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches for the feast days of their respective patron saints. Metropolitan Job of Pisidia led the Orthodox delegation, which was sent by Patriarch Bartholomew I. | Vatican News | Facebook