The African continent is home to one-fifth of the world's Catholics. Many are hoping the next pope will come from their ...

Catholic church members gathered at the Regina Mundi Catholic Church in Johannesburg South Africa on Wednesday for a mass to ...

If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history. Catholic Africans think it is ...

North Africa once produced Catholic popes who shaped Church traditions, including Easter Sunday and St Valentine’s Day. Will ...

Nathaniel’s wife, who escaped with their two children, told AsiaNews that her husband was shot in the head by terrorists ...

Even though cardinals don’t campaign for the job of pope, there are always front-runners going into a conclave to choose the ...

Rappler breaks down the demographics of the cardinal electors, including where they’re from and which pope appointed them ...

After every two rounds of voting in the Sistine Chapel, the ballots of the cardinals are burned in a special furnace to ...

As cardinals prepare to elect a new pope, campaigners warned Friday that neither of the frontrunners, Pietro Parolin nor Luis ...

Iraqi Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako is the only cardinal from his nation. India is sending four cardinals to the conclave, the ...

During the seating there's no communication with the outside world on the proceedings, except for the smoke signals from the ...

Samuel Escobar, a Peruvian pastor and theologian whose passion for social justice and evangelization resulted in a new field ...