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

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis’ ...

As world leaders gather in Rome for Pope Francis's funeral on Saturday, many Catholics are wondering if the church could soon elect its first black pope. With Africa home to one in five Catholics, the ...

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

Thus, Karuri and the community he led found themselves in a colonial world teeming with opportunists, where the boundaries ...

Around 30 theologians and pastoral workers gathered April 2–3 in Accra, Ghana, to “shape the church’s vision in Africa for the next 25 years.” (Photo by Charles Ayetan / SECAM / LCI) As ...

Pope Francis’ more than 12-year pontificate deeply resonated with the people of God in Africa, with one exception related to ...

With approximately 30 million adherents in Nigeria, the Roman Catholic Church is the largest Christian denomination in ...

African bishops’ conferences, largely among the church’s most conservative, pushed back against Francis' positions. After he ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has hosted the first engagement between government and the leadership of the church since the start of the Seventh Administration. The President hosted the leadership of the ...

The first district of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been created in the Republic of Guinea in West Africa. On March 30, 162 members of the Church gathered in Conakry, Guinea, to ...

who described himself as a "church-planting missionary," his wife Meagan and two children arrived in South Africa in November 2018 to run the Motherwell branch. An image showing Sullivan preaching ...