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Pope Francis now ‘out of danger from death’ as health condition continues to improve
Pope Francis is «out of danger from death» as of Monday evening, marking a significant improvement after weeks of hospitalization involving the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
In a statement obtained by Fox News, the Vatican said that the «clinical conditions of the Holy Father continue to be stable.»
«The improvements recorded in the previous days have been further consolidated, as confirmed by both blood tests and clinical objectivity and good response to drug therapy,» the release read.
The Vatican also said that Pope Francis, 88, «is out of danger from death from the infections that he arrived at the hospital with.»
POPE FRANCIS SUFFERING FROM ‘MILD RENAL INSUFFICIENCY,’ THOUGH CONDITION REMAINS ‘UNDER CONTROL,’ VATICAN SAYS
Pope Francis waves from his popemobile after the weekly Angelus prayers, at the Saint Peter’s Square in the Vatican on October 20, 2024. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty)
The pope was first admitted to Gemelli Hospital on Feb. 14 after fighting a week-long bout of bronchitis that gradually worsened. There, he was first diagnosed with a complex viral, bacterial and fungal respiratory tract infection.
Doctors then detected the onset of pneumonia in both of Pope Francis’s lungs – a significant health threat to the octogenarian, who has chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed when he was younger.
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Pope Francis takes part in an interreligious meeting with young people at the Catholic Junior College in Singapore on September 13, 2024. (Tiziana Fabi/Pool/AFP/Getty)
As of Monday, Pope Francis will continue to recover in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital «for further days,» Holy See officials said, citing the «complexity of the clinical picture and the important infectious picture presented at hospitalization.»
Pope Francis had solid food introduced into his diet on Sunday after days of gradual improvement. On Monday, he «alternated prayer with rest» and worshipped throughout the day.
Pope Francis waves during an audience with Hungarian pilgrims in Paul VI hall at the Vatican on April 25, 2024. (Fillipo Monteforte/AFP via Getty)
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«This morning the Holy Father was able to follow the Spiritual Exercises in connection with the Paul VI Room, then received the Eucharist and went to the Chapel of the private apartment for a moment of prayer,» the Holy See said on Monday. «In the afternoon he joined the Spiritual Exercises of the Curia again.»
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Evangelical leader says US must protect Syrian Christians from attacks by jihadi terrorists
JERUSALEM—The former al Qaeda terrorist and current Interim President of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, failed to stop a massacre of over 1,000 Syrians, including Christians, that unfolded last Thursday and continued over a period of days.
Al-Sharaa and his organization, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a U.S.-designated Sunni terrorist organization, toppled former Syrian President Bashar Assad in December.
Christian leaders and human rights activists have cast strong doubts on the capability of al-Sharra’s Islamist regime to build a democracy that can protect vulnerable religious minority groups.
«This is a warning that the Syrian government is not ready for prime time if it can’t protect a handful of vulnerable Christians who had absolutely nothing to do with this violence except being its victims,» Rev. Johnnie Moore, the president of The Congress of Christian Leaders, told Fox News Digital.
TULSI GABBARD’S WARNING TO SENATE ON SYRIA PROVES PROPHETIC AS AL QAEDA-LINKED REGIME SLAUGHTERS MINORITIES
Security forces loyal to the interim Syrian government ride in the back of a vehicle moving along a road in Syria’s western city of Latakia on March 9, 2025. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images)
After shocking online video footage showed Islamists engaging in massacres of Syrian Alawites—a minority religious population—al-Sharra claimed he would «hold accountable, firmly and without leniency, anyone who was involved in the bloodshed of civilians». He added, «There will be no one above the law and anyone whose hands have been stained with the blood of Syrians will face justice sooner or later.»
Moore said, «It is a clear demonstration that this new government has failed at the first task of any government, which is to protect its citizens.»
New Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa seen in the village of Besnaya in Syria’s rebel-held northwestern Idlib province at the border with Turkey in 2024. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images)
He said that foreign fighters acting either at the direction of the Syrian government or embedded within it or behaving in an out-of-control way «indiscriminately and grotesquely killed countless civilians, including a number of Christians, that we personally verified were killed. And the numbers are rising.»
Moore said, «The new government in Syria may not be ISIS, but they are ‘Islamists.’» Al-Sharaa was also once a member of the Islamist State terrorist movement.
UNCOVERING THE ATROCITIES OF THE ASSAD REGIME AT ITS ‘DEATH FACTORY’ ON THE HILL
Syrian families who fled the clashes in Syria arrive to cross into the northern village of Heker al-Daher in Akkar province, Lebanon, on Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Moore lambasted the posture of the Europeans toward the hardcore Syrian Islamist regime by noting the European governments seem to be rewarding the regime in Damascus.
«And for this to happen within 24 hours of the United Kingdom announcing that they are waiving sanctions on the Syrian national bank and over 20 other entities is a warning sign to the entire Western world and the EU commission is continuing with its plans do a funding conference in the near future to help the new Syrian government.»
Moore continued, «The response from the U.S. should be the exact opposite. The United States should send a very, very clear message to the new Syrian government that there will be zero sanctions relief and there will be zero normalization of its treatment to the new Syrian government until it proves that it’s going to be able to protect all the citizens of Syria, including its vulnerable Christians.»
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Christians gather to celebrate Christmas at the Monastery of Our Lady of Saydnaya on Dec. 24, 2024 in Saydnaya, Syria. (Ali Haj Suleiman/Getty Images)
Moore noted that during the Syrian civil war, Christians were killed and displaced. In December, the Center for Religious Freedom’s Nina Shea and Moore discussed on Fox and Friends the threat to Christianity in Syria after rebels took over the capital and the U.S. role in protecting Christians.
The Christian population in Syria has shrunk considerably since the start of the 2011 Syrian civil war. There are an estimated 300,000 Christians in the war-torn nation. Prior to the Syrian civil war, the Syrian Christian community numbered 1.5 million.
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Trump envoy Witkoff heading to Russia for second time later this week, source says
U.S. envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff is heading to Russia later this week, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News.
The confirmation comes after media reports said Witkoff is planning to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin for a second time.
Witkoff previously met Putin for three hours in mid-February during a trip to Moscow to secure the release of detained American Marc Fogel, according to Axios.
The Kremlin then suggested around that time that another U.S.-Russia prisoner swap could be coming.
UKRAINE LAUNCHES BIGGEST DRONE ATTACK ON MOSCOW, KILLING 2, AS US TALKS BEGIN
Steve Witkoff, White House special envoy for the Middle East, center, accompanied by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, speaks with reporters at the White House in Washington on Thursday, March 6. (AP/Ben Curtis)
Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz are currently in Saudi Arabia meeting a senior Ukrainian delegation for talks about ending the Ukraine-Russia war.
The Ukrainian delegation in Saudi Arabia was expected to include Andriy Yermak, head of the presidential office, Andrii Sybiha, minister of foreign affairs, Pavlo Palisa, colonel of armed forces of Ukraine and an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as well as Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, who was not only involved in initial talks with Russia following its February 2022 invasion, but who also survived a poisoning attack after a peace meeting in March that year.
HAMAS’ TREATMENT OF HOSTAGES ‘INTOLERABLE,’ TRUMP ENVOY SAYS
President Donald Trump greets former detainee Marc Fogel as he arrives at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 11. (Ting Shen/AFP via Getty Images)
Rubio told reporters Monday that «The important point in this meeting is to establish clearly their intentions, their desire, as they’ve said publicly now, numerous times, to reach a point where peace is possible,» adding that he will need to be assured that Kyiv is prepared to make some hard decisions, like giving up territory seized by Russia, in order to end the three-year war.
Steve Witkoff, US special envoy to the Middle East, during an executive order signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Feb. 3. (Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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«I wouldn’t prejudge tomorrow about whether or not we have a minerals deal,» Rubio also said on board a flight to Saudi Arabia. «It’s an important topic, but it’s not the main topic on the agenda.
Fox News’ Caitlin McFall contributed to this report.
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