Tag: Pope Francis

Pope Francis is expected to arrive in South Sudan on Friday, and the Catholic Church there plans to perform special prayers on Thursday for...

Over a million worshippers turned out for a papal mass in DR Congo's capital Wednesday, organisers said, on the second day of Pope Francis's...

Pope Francis has celebrated one of his biggest Masses, with around a million attendees in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital, estimates say. Huge crowds started...

Pope Francis has celebrated one of his biggest masses, in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital, Kinshasa. It is more than 37 years since a pope...

Francis, 86, says that a "forgotten genocide" is happening in the DRC as he starts his journey through two African countries. Pope Francis, who recently arrived...

Pope Francis's highly anticipated trip to the DRC and South Sudan, two of the most neglected crises in the world, is currently taking place. Marie Louise Wambale had to flee with almost nothing about ten years ago due to fighting between the M23 rebels and the DRC army in the country's eastern region, and it took her years to rebuild her life. She hoped, along with the majority of Catholics in the eastern DRC, that Pope Francis would bring a message of hope at a time when the rebels are posing their greatest threat to this region since 2012. “Many...

Pope Francis has called homosexuality laws "unjust," saying God loves his children exactly as they are, and has urged Catholic bishops who support the...

Sanitary police armed with crowbars and a bulldozer set about demolishing makeshift trader stalls crowding downtown streets in the capital of Democratic Republic of...

Market traders in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo have expressed dismay at being forced to dismantle their stalls ahead of a...

Beginning on Monday, the streets of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, will undergo renovations in preparation for Pope Francis'...