While the cardinals gather for the conclave, female activists send a clear signal. They used pink smoke to protest against their exclusion from church offices. 'A sliding doors moment': Donald ...

Members of Catholic women's group, Women's Ordination Conference, hold flares of pink smoke calling for gender equality in the Catholic Church and in protest of the male-only conclave, Rome, May 7 ...

Today's influencers use social media, television and newspaper interviews, news conferences, open letters, and even puffs of pink smoke. Sign up here. The campaigns to sway the outcome of a highly ...

In a park on a hill overlooking the dome of St Peter’s and the church’s Vatican headquarters, campaigners released pink smoke from flares, and demanded that women be allowed to seek ordination.

In a park on a hill overlooking the dome of St Peter's and the church's Vatican headquarters, campaigners released pink smoke from flares, and demanded that women be allowed to seek ordination.