The pontiff has suffered increasing health problems in recent years, from knee pain to surgery for a hernia and on his colon.
In September, he is set to embark on the longest foreign trip of his papacy, travelling to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor ...
‘Ethir’ was born in 1934 in a one-room hut with a palmyrah leaf roof and a mud floor in the small village of Periyavillan in the Jaffna peninsula. He taught himself to high jump in his backyard by ...