One in 5 of the world’s Catholics now live in Africa, and African cardinals will be key in determining Francis’s successor at ...

Nowhere in the world is the Roman Catholic Church growing faster than in Africa, a continent Francis showered with attention.

The April 26 celebration was a global farewell to a humble shepherd, who was at the helm of the Catholic Church for a little ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and ...

The church has never elected an African pope in its modern history. If it did, it would likely indicate a continuing trend of ...

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Cardinal Peter Turkson, a prominent figure from Ghana, is regarded as a significant African leader within the Catholic Church ...

Catholic Church leaders in Africa remember Francis as a pontiff who kept the continent close to his heart, advocating for its ...

New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond is the leader of approximately half a million Catholics in the second-oldest diocese in ...

As world leaders gather in Rome for Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday, many Catholics are wondering if the church could soon ...

The election of an African Pope would show the Catholic Church’s faith not only in an African leader but in the Continent as ...

Now predominantly Muslim, North Africa was once a Christian heartland, producing Catholic popes who left their mark on the ...