the meeting is one of the fruits of Pope Francis' visit to Juba last February. The delegations, which represent all opposition parties, have reopened dialogue in the framework of the Rome Initiative ...

Church must offer an alterative to contemporary values if it wants to help teenagers grappling with anxiety and frightening ...

Pope Francis has had an eventful decade in the chair of Peter, but one aspect of his papal ministry may have gone relatively ...

The Holy See's ambassador to South Sudan has said the Catholic Church must “step up its game” to help the people build peace.

Pope Francis called for peace on Friday as he met delegations of the South Sudan government and the hold-out opposition group, after the mediation adjourned the peace talks in Rome, Italy.

On his election 10 years ago, Pope Francis was hailed as a voice of modernisation. Has his papacy made a difference to health ...

Pope Francis's most recent trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan highlight the importance of Africa in ...

I see the church as a field hospital,’ Pope Francis once said – not a place where superficial solutions will do much good.

Pope Francis on Saturday updated and permanently implemented Vatican regulations on confronting sexual abuse requiring abuse ...

Leaders of South Sudan's government and the armed opposition are to meet March 20-26 at the Rome headquarters of the ...

While in orbit, the satellite will broadcast decipherable statements from Pope Francis on the theme of hope and peace in ...

Pope Francis has updated a 2019 church law governing clerical sexual abuse and extended it to include accountability for ...