Nowhere in the world is the Roman Catholic Church growing faster than in Africa, a continent Francis showered with attention.

Catholic Church leaders in Africa remember Francis as a pontiff who kept the continent close to his heart, advocating for its ...

Christianity is booming in Africa, leading analysts to tell Fox News Digital that it could be time for the next pope to come ...

Major voices of the conclave. Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, 65, the outspoken archbishop of Kinshasa, has long championed ...

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

Now predominantly Muslim, North Africa was once a Christian heartland, producing Catholic popes who left their mark on the ...

Columnist Will Sutton says MAGA might like to see an African pope and considers whether Black Catholics might agree.

If conservatives have their way, Roman Catholic cardinals would make history by naming the first Black pope in history. The ...

As world leaders gather in Rome for Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday, many Catholics are wondering if the church could soon ...

Pope Francis’ emphasis on reaching out to the “peripheries" of the church and world will result in the most diverse ...

Africa is home to some of the fastest-growing Catholic populations in the world and has over 250 million Catholics.

Most popes have come from Europe, even though there are countries in South and Central America, Asia, and Africa with ...