Jordan has asked the World Heritage Committee to add the site of Jesus's Baptism to Unesco's World Heritage List (full text). Pope Francis has called for prayers for Greece as the country faces a "keenly felt human and social crisis". The Vatican has said it will consider divesting its holdings in fossil fuels. Assailants have bound and gagged three elderly nuns during a robbery at their home in southern Mexico. The Salesian Fr Sabino Ardito is the new commissar of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, succeeding the late Fr Fidenzio Volpi. Stephanie Kirchgaessner explains how Cardinal Peter Turkson became "the public face of ... the Pope’s most pressing agenda". Rita Ferrone argues that children are receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation too late. And AP reports that Americans are snapping up Francis merchandise ahead of the papal visit in September. Follow me on Twitter @lukecoppen for updates throughout the day.
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