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

If the sole predictor of who would become the next pope was where the Catholic Church is growing fastest, then it is almost ...

The church is divided. The problem is to find the one who unites, not pretend that it isn’t divided,” one church historian ...

Cardinals this week will start in-depth discussions on planning the conclave to choose Pope Francis’ successor ...

The Ethiopian Catholic Church mourned the death of Pope Francis today with memorial mass and funeral rites at Lideta Catholic Cathedral. President Taye Atske Selassie as well as religious fathers of ...

India has had a thriving community of Eastern Orthodox Christians, brought by Saint Thomas the Apostle to India.

When Bergoglio from Argentina broke the Third World barrier, some purists remained sceptical.” I cannot think of a function ...

The late pontiff’s health concerns in recent years led to contenders to succeed him foreseeing a papabile ahead of his death ...

The late pontiff was first Jesuit, the first Latin American, and first and last a priest, walking beside people on their journey of faith.

Waiting for an African Pope” by my brother, Azu Ishiekwene, made an interesting reading. Azu’s immense fecundity, as usual, his flawless prose, and free-flowing minting and weaving of words will ...

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