Francis arrives on Friday for a three-day visit to South Sudan, the first by any pope since the predominantly Christian nation split from Muslim-majority Sudan in 2011. Its history since ...

POPE Francis sided with a group of Peruvian villagers on Saturday who have complained that companies linked to a powerful South American cult have tried to evict them from their land using lawsuits ...

South Sudan's vice-president has urged the Muslim ... it is beefing up land and air patrols to deter further violence. Pope Francis made headlines a year ago, becoming the the first pontiff ...

Pope Francis urged Iran and Israel on Sunday to avoid steps that could feed "a spiral of violence" that risked plunging the ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis called for an immediate ceasefire ... Armenia and Azerbaijan, Haiti, Myanmar, Sudan, the Sahel and Horn of Africa regions, Congo and Mozambique. After asking Italian ...

VATICAN CITY, April 12 (Reuters) - Pope Francis will take his first overseas ... The Argentine pope, the first from the so-called Global South, has made reaching out to Asia one of the priorities ...

Pope Francis, spiritual leader of the global Catholic Christian population, will embark on an Apostolic Journey across parts ...

East Asia in late summer, the Holy See's spokesman said on Friday. The head of the Catholic Church is to visit Indonesia, ...

Francis, 87, had skipped a Good Friday ceremony to preserve his health. ROME and LONDON -- Pope Francis on Sunday presided over an Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square and later used his ...

South Sudan's vice-president has urged the Muslim ... it is beefing up land and air patrols to deter further violence. Pope Francis made headlines a year ago, becoming the the first pontiff ...

Pope Francis kisses a baby as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at The Vatican on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. QUITO, Ecuador—Pope Francis on Saturday sided with a ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday sided with a group of Peruvian villagers who have complained that companies linked to a powerful South American church group have tried to evict ...