As the papal conclave enters its second day, catholic faithful in DR Congo are cheering for Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, the ...

Nowhere in the world is the Roman Catholic Church ... people who joined the church in 2022 were in Africa. Image Mourning Pope Francis in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, last week.

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

The latest estimate from the police is that about 30,000 people are currently in St Peter's Square. Tina Beattie, former ...

That the new pontiff’s ancestry can be partially traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture in New Orleans has ...

Among them was Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, who celebrated Mass at San Gabriele Arcangelo all'Acqua Traversa, in an ...

Church leaders in Africa said they trusted Pope Leo XIV would recognise the continent as “an indispensable partner in the ...

Pope Francis is greeted at the N’Dolo Airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Jan. 31 ... the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the sacred Scriptures, and the language used in FS as ...

And he elevated African church leaders who will help ... who is the archbishop of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and among those who could possibly succeed Francis.

A Filipino or Congolese pope would signal that Catholicism’s demographic heart now beats in Manila and Kinshasa, rather than ...

With the demographics of the Catholic Church “becoming less European ... Fridolin Ambongo Besungu (Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo) Ambongo, 65, is the archbishop of Kinshasa in ...