Belarus's foremost Catholic dissident has urged Church leaders not to ignore the plight of his country's political prisoners ...

An Alameda County jury on Wednesday delivered a $16 million verdict against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland in a key ...

As the pontiff arrives in the tiny authoritarian nation of Equatorial Guinea, some Catholics in Africa say they are excited ...

Pope Leo XVI’s 11-day tour of four African nations has prompted wide excitement among the faithful on the continent – but ...

As Pope Leo XIV was visiting Africa, African Catholics from across the United States honored one of their own at a Mass ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated an outdoor Mass for an estimated 100,000 Catholics in Angola on Sunday, April 19, urging the faithful ...

The pope’s planned visit to a Catholic chapel in Angola that was connected to the slave trade is seen as a symbolic moment by ...

His visit includes a trip to a shrine where enslaved Africans were baptized before being forced into the treacherous voyage ...

Though Christianity has spent years declining in the United States, the Catholic Church says it’s seeing an increase in new ...

Pope Leo XIV is encouraging young people in Cameroon to resist the temptation to migrate and to stay at home and fight ...

Some spent the night on the ground, battling mosquitoes, to stake out their spot for the pontiff's Mass in the economic ...

ANTWERP PROVINCE, BELGIUM—Layers of rubble from earlier phases of construction were discovered underneath Saint Rumbold’s Cathedral in northern Belgium’s city of Mechelen, according to a Belgian News ...