Despite accounting for only 10% of the world’s population, the U.S. and European Union exert outsized influence on global ...

Francis was more tolerant with another critic, the retired archbishop of Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen. He excoriated the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and ...

He made his last public appearance on Easter Sunday — a day before his death — to bless thousands of people in St. Peter’s ...

Two weeks after his surprise election as pontiff, Pope Francis carried out the Maundy Thursday ritual of washing and kissing ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but ...

He was a pope who understood the power of a simple touch: caressing the deformed head of a man in St. Peter’s Square, washing ...

East Africa and peace in the region were concerns very close to Pope Francis’s heart, Kenya’s Ambassador to the Holy See, Ms Betty Cherwon, said on Monday while mourning the demise of the Holy Father.

He made his last public appearance on Easter Sunday — a day before his death — to bless thousands of people in St. Peter’s ...

The pope ministered with a charming, humble style. He had blessed thousands in St. Peter’s Square on Easter Sunday.