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

As world leaders gather in Rome for Pope Francis's funeral on Saturday, many Catholics are wondering if the church could soon elect its first black pope. With Africa home to one in five Catholics, the ...

Why his papacy mattered for the continent – and for the world’s poor and marginalised COVER STORY | STAN CHUN IIO | The death ...

If the sole predictor of who would become the next pope was where the Catholic Church is growing fastest, then it is almost ...

FrontPageAfrica has reliably gathered that Liberia’s religious community, acting on the request of President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, is attempting to persuade Speaker Jonathan Fonati Koffa to resign amid ...

Uniting a divided church will be one of the main tasks he faces. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

After attending Pope Francis’s funeral Saturday and as they begin pre-conclave meetings to discuss the state of the world and ...

Some see the byword as a rallying call in a conservative campaign to reverse Francis’ push for a more inclusive church.

The church is divided. The problem is to find the one who unites, not pretend that it isn’t divided,” one church historian ...

A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.”It implies the<a ...

Pope Francis smashed the stereotypical profile for a pontiff, becoming the Catholic Church's first leader from the Americas ...

One of Pope Francis’ enduring legacies was that he greatly expanded the diversity of cardinals who will elect his successor, ...