Turkson is not the only African name being mentioned as the church prepares for a conclave to choose its next leader. He would also not be the first African pontiff - Pope Victor I, from North ...

Nowhere in the world is the Roman Catholic Church growing faster than in Africa, a continent Francis showered with attention. By Elian Peltier Reporting from Dakar, Senegal When Pope Francis ...

People queue during mass Easter weddings for 3,000 people, some polygamous, at the International Pentecost Holiness Church in Heidelberg, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Sunday, April 20 ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A Pentecostal church in South Africa celebrated Easter Sunday with mass wedding ceremonies for around 3,000 people, with many of them entering into polygamous marriages.

And he elevated African church leaders who will help choose his successor — and shape the future of the church. During Francis’s 12-year papacy, the number of African Catholics jumped from ...

Jesus, played by Jose Vital, a member of St. Thomas of Villanova Church in Palatine ... the first time and said he hoped people making the march would have an understanding of what Jesus did ...

A Pentecostal church in South Africa has celebrated Easter Sunday with mass wedding ceremonies for around 3,000 people, with many of them entering into polygamous marriages JOHANNESBURG -- A ...

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