One in 5 of the world’s Catholics now live in Africa, and African cardinals will be key in determining Francis’s successor at ...

Many Catholics in Africa are asking whether the next Pope will be from their continent. This, increasingly, seems likely.

Bishop Emeritus Hwa Yung of the Methodist Church in Malaysia issued a stirring call for Global South leaders to take ...

Cardinals are expected to pick a date on Monday for the conclave to elect a new leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.

With deep roots in local church ministry and continental mobilization, David Ruiz has spent his life building structures and ...

Cardinals will take part in a conclave in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope. Here's a brief glossary of the ...

VICE President Dr. Philip Mpango has emphasized that the best way to honour the late Pope Francis, the former Head of the ...

Pope Francis blessed all from the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica — “Urbi et Orbi” (To the city [Rome] and to the world). “On this day, I would like all of us to hope anew and to revive our ...

My jaw dropped in Cartagena. This old, historic, colonial city just felt like one gorgeous, picture perfect spot followed by another. The buildings were splashed with color – red, gold, pink, and blue ...

With Pope Francis’ funeral in the rearview mirror, the focus at the Vatican shifts to the forthcoming papal conclave and the process of electing the next pontiff.  The Catholic Church is bigger than ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis’ ...

A venerated Byzantine icon of Mary is housed in the Pauline chapel near the tomb. A vase of golden roses, donated by Francis in 2023, sits among candlesticks under the icon. He last visited the chapel ...