VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis will visit the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan early next year, the Vatican said on Thursday, after having to cancel a scheduled trip to the two ...

Pope Francis arrived in the tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor on Monday for the penultimate stop on his marathon trip ...

Pope Francis traveled to one of the most remote ... Getty Images More than 10 million people call the South Pacific region home. About a quarter of them, or 2.5 million, are Catholic, according ...

Following the farewell ceremony on Friday, the pope took ... Guinea, Francis’ agenda is aligned with more of his social justice priorities and will visit a remote part of the South Pacific ...

Pope Francis ... who live there. Francis flew aboard a Royal Australian Air Force C-130 transport plane from Port Moresby to Vanimo, on the northwest coast of the South Pacific nation.

Pope Francis is “popular among Catholics here, but may also be [seen as] influential among the general public, which sees him ...

Pope Francis will arrive in one of the world's most remote Catholic communities in Papua New Guinea on Sunday to something ...

Pope Francis has united two Welsh dioceses to create ... move on Thursday as a “new chapter for the Catholic community in South Wales and Herefordshire.” The new Archdiocese of Cardiff-Menevia ...

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) — Pope Francis arrived in Papua New Guinea ... strategically important South Pacific nation. A cannon salute and marching band greeted the 87-year-old pope ...

Pope Francis received a rapturous welcome from the ... marks the penultimate stop of a marathon trip through Asia and the South Pacific. Local authorities estimate that a crowd of 600,000 gathered ...