French Holocaust survivor Simone Veil dies at 89
Simone Veil, a former magistrate and Holocaust survivor best known in France for legalising abortion in the 1970s, died on Friday. She was 89 years old.
Jun 30, 2017, 15:25 PM IST
Use the Gospel as your GPS, Pope tells huge mass in Poland
Pope Francis celebrated mass Sunday with over 1.5 million pilgrims in a vast sun-drenched field in Poland, wrapping up an emotionally charged trip with some choice technological metaphors.
Aug 01, 2016, 04:00 AM IST
Pope visits Auschwitz, says same horrors happening today
Pope Francis made an emotional and silent visit to the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz on Friday and later said many of the horrors committed are happening in places at war today.
Jul 30, 2016, 01:21 AM IST
Pope Francis pays silent visit to Auschwitz
Pope Francis on Friday walked alone through the notorious wrought-iron "Arbeit Macht Frei" gates at Auschwitz-Birkenau beginning a historic visit to the former Nazi death camp.
Jul 29, 2016, 14:30 PM IST
Last survivor of Nazi death camp Treblinka dies in Israel
Samuel Willenberg, the last survivor of Treblinka, the Nazi death camp where 875,000 people were systematically murdered, has died in Israel at the age of 93.
Feb 21, 2016, 01:40 AM IST