African outreach was among Pope Francis' legacies, observers say, with numerous visits and a message of mercy inspiring fervor among Africa's young.

Pope Leo XIV's church is growing steadily, but its believers are no longer concentrated on the continent where it was born.

Despite having the world's fastest-growing Catholic population, odds are against Africa producing the next pontiff.

Nowhere in the world is the Roman Catholic Church growing faster than in Africa, a continent Francis ... Italy and later kissed the feet of South Sudan’s two competing warlords, his actions ...

As mission churches, African Catholic churches are “under the protection” of the Roman agency in ... it’s clear that Africa and the rest of the global south can no longer accept being ...

As mission churches, African Catholic churches are “under the protection” of the Roman agency in charge of evangelisation ... live outside Europe – it’s clear that Africa and the rest of the global ...

Those measures have proven crucial for the Roman ... global south. As the church’s College of Cardinals convenes on May 7 in Rome to choose Francis’ successor, it’s clear that Africa ...

With approximately 30 million adherents in Nigeria, the Roman Catholic Church is the largest Christian denomination ... Although there are notable populations of Catholics in the South West and the ...

North Africa was once a Christian heartland, producing Catholic popes who left their mark on the Church to this day. Their papacies were in the era of the Roman Empire, which stretched across ...

Catholic leaders across Africa are expressing excitement at the election of the first American as Pope Leo XIV.

One month after the Catholic Church announced an end to its partnership with the U.S. government, the Episcopal Church has ...

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