Despite his confinement to his hospital room, where he is being treated for double pneumonia, Pope Francis delivered two important messages on Sunday.

Nearly a decade after Pope Francis plucked them from a refugee camp in Greece, a Syrian couple and their child have carved out a quiet life in suburban Rome

ROME — Pope Francis was resting Monday morning after a quiet night, on the 10th day of his hospitalization for a complex lung infection that has provoked the early stages of kidney insufficiency, the Vatican said. The one-line statement didn’t say if Francis, 88, had woken up. “The night passed well, the pope slept and is resting,” it said.

Nearly a decade after Pope Francis plucked them from a refugee ... native Syria – they fled Damascus at the height of the civil war with only one change of clothes, diapers and milk for their ...

They have no pictures from their native Syria – they fled Damascus at the height of the civil war with only ... framed photo of little Riad meeting Pope Francis, who brought them and two other ...