The pontiff made a four-nation Asia Pacific tour last year – the longest trip of his papacy that included Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and Singapore.

MICHAEL BECKLEY is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American ...

Pope Francis has died at the age of 88. The 88-year-old pope, who had part of one lung removed as a young man, has long ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of five children to ...

Since 1960, we have always managed to patch Nigeria’s leaking roof to force a people with 350 independent languages to remain ...