As cardinals start arriving in Rome ahead of Pope Francis' funeral ... Turkson, 76, could be the first ever pope from sub-Saharan Africa, an area where the Church is growing.

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Italy’s geopolitical ascendancy is prefigured around developing closer hydrocarbon ties to Libya in order to create an “enlarged Mediterranean” — the ultimate prize of Italian policy in ...

As the conclave to find Pope Francis’ successor continues, the cardinals are not eating gourmet food amid their sequestered ...

It began not with thunder, but with a curl of white smoke against a bright blue Roman sky. For a brief moment, all sound in ...

Pope Leo XIV (formerly Robert Francis Prevost) and other cardinals adhered to many restrictions while inside the conclave.

Contenders for pope emerge from the U.S., Asia, and Africa—raising the chance of a non-European successor to Francis.

From the trenches of Ukraine to the desperate refugee camps of the Middle East, from the cracked earth of sub-Saharan Africa to ... in April.Credit: Getty Images His diplomacy will be tested ...

This was an impressive feat, the historian said, because "he was the Bishop of Rome when Christianity was ... Catholicism is expanding more rapidly in sub-Saharan Africa today than anywhere ...