Despite having the world's fastest-growing Catholic population, odds are against Africa producing the next pontiff.

Pope Francis passed away on Monday at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta. He was 88 years old. World leaders, ...

The late pontiff’s health concerns in recent years led to contenders to succeed him known a papabile emerging even before his ...

Arsenal fans staged a protest on Tuesday against the club’s sponsorship deal with Rwanda due to the country’s alleged ties ...

Pope Francis' death on Monday started off a series of traditions that culminates in a vote for his successor. Here are some of the possible candidates to be the next pope.

The vilest scramble for loot that has ever disfigured the history of human conscience” is how Joseph Conrad described colonial-era concessions granted to private companies for Congo’s natural ...

Five new stakes were created in Brazil, DR Congo, Montana, Philippines and Virginia; 13 stakes were reorganized in Arizona, ...

Francis did not preside over the Vatican’s Easter Mass as he was limiting his workload since his hospitalization, but made an ...

Pope Francis, 88, the oldest pope in over a century, died Monday morning, though quiet discussions on who could succeed him ...

Ahead of the conclave to select the next pope, names circulating include cardinals Bo of Myanmar, Tagle of the Philippines ...

African leaders praised the "legacy of compassion" and "commitment to inclusivity" of Pope Francis as they joined global ...

A person has been shot dead at a hospital where Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) works in the east of ...