Earlier this month, Pope Francis became the first pope — indeed, the first Western leader — to visit South Sudan. Amid an enthusiastic welcome, more than 100,000 people attended his papal Mass ...

Pope Francis is due to go to Congo from Jan. 31 to Feb. 3 and then spend two days in South Sudan. The pope has wanted to visit predominantly Christian South Sudan for years but plans were ...

(Reuters) - Pope Francis next week heads to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, two countries grappling with conflict and profound poverty, in what will be his third visit to sub ...

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.

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

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 ...

VATICAN CITY(Reuters) - Here are some statistics about Pope Francis, who on Monday marks the 10th anniversary of his election ...

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