The reintroduction of the “Patriarch of the West” title fell in a week that saw the publication of the Dignitas Infinita ...

FRANCISCAN Father Mario Debattista sees the heart of the Church at work in the everyday faith of ordinary people. Fr ...

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 ...

Ambassador Emmanuel Aban Ajawin, the Secretary-General of the South Sudan Opposition Movements Alliance (SSOMA), has said ...

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 ...

Pope Francis gives his message and blessing from ... praying especially for “the suffering peoples in Sudan and in the entire region of the Sahel, in the Horn of Africa, in the region of Kivu ...

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 ...

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

The Vatican's media team says Pope Francis will visit Papua New Guinea from 6-9 September. The Holy See Press Office said the ...

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 ...