Fostering unity is essential to a pope’s job description. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, an authoritative ...

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 ...

Armed looting has forced Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to suspend services at the only functioning ...

Pope Francis has died at age 88. The Vatican says the cause of death was a stroke that put him into a coma and led to heart ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has died, the Vatican said in a video statement on Monday.

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 ...

Pope Francis died Monday at age 88. History’s first Latin American pontiff charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated many conservatives with critiques of ...

In the final months of his life, the Pope's ill-health saw him spend several weeks in hospital. On 14 February, the ...

The head of the Catholic Church appeared on the Vatican balcony just hours before his death to address those who had gathered in the city to hear his words on Easter Sunday ...

South Sudan was teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top UN official in the world’s youngest nation warned on Monday, lamenting the government’s sudden postponement of the latest ...

In his remarks at the signing ceremony, Dr. Anin Ngot Mou, Undersecretary at the Ministry of Health, emphasized the ...

The war in Sudan between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces enters its third year and people remain unseen, bombed, besieged, displaced and deprived of food, medical care and basic ...