By Anthony Faiola / Stefano Pitrelli contributed to this report.
Pope Francis leaves at the end of his weekly general audience in St Peter’s square at the Vatican on May 27. (AFP /Alberto Pizzolialberto Pizzoli / Getty Images)
The veteran Italian journalist who scooped the Vatican by releasing an embargoed draft of a major document on the environment penned by Pope Francis, has been given the papal boot.
By Michelle Boorstein, Anthony Faiola and Chris Mooney / Faiola reported from Berlin. Stefano Pitrelli in Rome and Sarah Pulliam Bailey in Washington contributed to this report.
A draft of a major environmental document by Pope Francis says “the bulk of global warming” is caused by human activity and calls on people — especially the world’s rich — to take steps to mitigate the damage by reducing consumption and reliance on fossil fuels.
Continua la lettura di Pope Francis blasts global warming deniers in leaked draft of encyclical
By Anthony Faiola / Stephanie Kirchner in Berlin, Stefano Pitrelli in Treviso, Italy, and Brian Murphy in Washington contributed to this report
BERLIN — The United Nations refugee agency estimated Tuesday that as many as 850 migrants had perished in a boat capsizing this week off the coast of Libya, as the ship’s captain and a crew member were taken into custody on criminal charges.
Continua la lettura di U.N. estimates up to 850 migrants perished in capsized boat off Libya