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

Pope Francis’ more than 12-year pontificate deeply resonated with the people of God in Africa, with one exception related to ...

Central African Republic’s capital had been torn apart by inter-religious violence leading up to Pope Francis’ 2015 visit, ...

Priests and parishioners who spoke to The Associated Press from Morocco to South Africa remembered Francis ... in poor neighborhoods,” in a Kenyan slum, preached fraternity across religion ...

Despite its diminutive size on the all-too-common world maps that use Mercator projection, Africa is the second-largest ...

Pope Francis became a voice for Africa. When he visited Kenya in 2015, he chose to visit the slums of Nairobi to proclaim the gospel of liberation to the forsaken of society. He called on African ...

Setting up a unity government highlights that a positive turnaround is possible for South Africa, though it is far from ...

Award-winning economist Dawie Roodt warns that South Africa’s current trajectory is unsustainable and that the country needs to make big changes to jumpstart economic growth. South Africa’s ...

A flurry of meetings between Saudi Arabia and South Africa over the past year has culminated in discussions about or signed deals worth billions of dollars into Africa’s most industrialized ...