North Africa once produced Catholic popes who shaped Church traditions, including Easter Sunday and St Valentine’s Day. Will Africa see another pope after centuries?

Across Africa, many Catholic faithful have long yearned for the Catholic Church to fully recognize the spiritual heroes who've shaped their communities — people like Kenya's Blessed Irene ...

Those measures have proven crucial for the Roman Catholic Church, said Stan Chu Ilo, an associate professor of Catholic studies at Depaul University in Chicago.

Saad Issa Constandi Salameh, Najwa Abu Daoud and Phemia Ayyad. It wounded several others, including the parish priest, Father Gabriel Romanelli, in the Holy Family Roman Catholic Church in Gaza. The ...

Erton Köhler, a pastor from Brazil, has been elected president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church General Conference.

Catholic bishops from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean have issued a historic joint appeal urging urgent and ...

Catholic bishops from Asia, Africa and Latin America are demanding climate justice for the parts of the world most affected ...

South Africa’s Bishop Sithembele Sipuka will help lead the Vatican’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue. The body focuses ...

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) warns that the global AIDS response is in crisis after a major ...

As a practising Catholic, I was raised to revere the Mass as the highest form of worship -- a sacred moment in which heaven touches earth and the faithful encounter the divine. Over the years, my ...

The Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea is telling the government it ... As the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, ...

As Christianity declines in the West, the faith is flourishing in sub-Saharan Africa, which is seeing the fastest growth in Christianity the world over. By 2060, more than 4 in 10 Christians worldwide ...