Francis arrives on Friday for a three-day visit to South Sudan, the first by any pope since the predominantly Christian nation split from Muslim-majority Sudan in 2011. Its history since ...
When Pope Francis released his encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si’,” in 2015, Muslims, Hindus and other faith leaders ...
Ambassador Emmanuel Aban Ajawin, the Secretary-General of the South Sudan Opposition Movements Alliance (SSOMA), has said ...
FRANCISCAN Father Mario Debattista sees the heart of the Church at work in the everyday faith of ordinary people. Fr ...
After having already endured years of protracted crisis in the country, the Sudanese people now face much greater threats to ...
South Sudan's vice-president has urged the Muslim ... it is beefing up land and air patrols to deter further violence. Pope Francis made headlines a year ago, becoming the the first pontiff ...
Pope Francis has sided with a group of Peruvian villagers who have complained that companies linked to a powerful South American church group have tried to evict them from their land using ...
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis called for an immediate ceasefire ... Armenia and Azerbaijan, Haiti, Myanmar, Sudan, the Sahel and Horn of Africa regions, Congo and Mozambique. After asking Italian ...
Pope Francis will visit Indonesia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Singapore in September, the Vatican announced Friday, confirming the longest trip of Francis’ papacy that is sure to test his ...
Francis will be the first pope to visit Papua New Guinea since St. John Paul II went there in 1984. The country, in a strategically important part of the South Pacific, has struggled with tribal ...