That the new pontiff’s ancestry can be partially traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture in New Orleans has ...

Backed by a coalition of influential funders, including Bank of America, the Central Africa Forest Initiative, the Good ...

Africa as a whole is strong in the faith – it is the only continent where numbers are still growing and it ordains the highest number of priests in the world. With over 52 million believers, the ...

The Belgian ruler Leopold II had elaborate plans to extract resources from Africa. Pachyderms played a part.

A major charity, African Parks, linked to Prince Harry, was under investigation for alleged abusive behaviour against ...

Why, in a global communion of 1.4 billion faithful, has the modern conclave not looked beyond Europeans for a new pope? And ...

Congo, officially known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is a country located in central Africa. It is the ...

Despite having the world's fastest-growing Catholic population, odds are against Africa producing the next pontiff.

The College of Cardinals on Thursday elected Cardinal Robert Prevost from Chicago as the Catholic Church’s next pope. Leo XIV ...

A Filipino or Congolese pope would signal that Catholicism’s demographic heart now beats in Manila and Kinshasa, rather than ...

If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history. Catholic Africans think it is ...