When was the last time you saw a video of Wazalendo militiamen in eastern DR Congo killing a Tutsi civilian, then burning the body on a bed of charcoal and consuming parts of it? There was no getting ...

At churches around Rome on Sunday (May 4), the cardinals who begin their voting for pope May 7, made customary visits to ...

Of the small handful of papal contenders, an even smaller subset tends flocks in countries at war. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, ...

Virtually all banks are closed. Currency shortages abound. Staples prices have jumped. Now residents are finding themselves ...

He took over leadership of the country in 2001 at the age of just 29, after his father and former coup leader, President ...

The mission to bring peace to eastern Congo, however, is far from accomplished. The recent past is littered with broken ...

Democratic Republic of Congo has launched a bid to strip former President Joseph Kabila of immunity so he can face trial on ...

If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history. Catholic Africans think it is ...

Conservatives are also pushing for Cardinal Peter Erdo of Hungary, who has been silently complicit in the wake of repressive ...

The International Committee of the Red Cross says it is helping transfer hundreds of Congolese soldiers and police officers ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Hundreds of Congolese soldiers and police officers, along with their families, were transferred from the rebel-controlled town of Goma in eastern Congo to the capital Kinshasa, the ...

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