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

For urban South Africans – now 70 per cent of the country’s population – there’s much to celebrate this Easter because, in ...

In Waste Wars, Alexander Clapp exposes the billion-dollar global waste trade exploiting the Global South, from toxic rice ...

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

American citizens are turning out in huge numbers to protest the assault on bedrock rights enshrined in the Constitution, the ...

Francis travelled to many countries, drawing immense crowds. Despite a concerted push by Australian Catholics, he never made ...

Pope Francis, who rose from modest means in Argentina to become the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff, died on Monday ...

A new podcast exploring the history of the Titanic has shed new light on the remarkable family link between the Belfast-built ...

COMMENT: Writing exclusively for The Independent, former Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby recalls his meetings with Pope ...