Leo XIV wants the world's attention on a continent vital to the Church's future, an aide says.

Catholic bishops urged an overhaul of the CBE system, citing poor implementation and gaps, ahead of school reopening, to ...

Catholic hospitals in Kenya have long been sources of quality medical care for the poor and disadvantaged as government-run facilities lack medicine, and are mismanaged. But the mission hospitals, as ...

Concerns have been raised over the exclusion of several of Africa’s largest Christian and Catholic populations from the ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — 'This is (the) only wine going forward that will be used in the celebration Mass in the whole of the country. Kindly, don’t buy the other one,' said Archbishop Maurice Muhatia ...

Pope Leo XIV begins a four-nation African visit Monday, traveling to the fastest-growing continent for the Catholic Church on ...

African outreach was among Pope Francis' legacies, religious observers say, with the late pontiff’s mission of hope and mercy inspiring fervor among the continent’s young people in visits to nations ...

The Catholic church faces a fundamental question as it prepares to elect a new pope. That is, whether to go back to a monarchical papacy with its pomp and pageantry, or to build on the momentum begun ...

The continent is crucial to the future of the church, but it’s also the center of long-running tensions over some of ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - From the dusty southern reaches of the Sahara to the lush uplands of central Angola, the Roman Catholic church is on the move in Africa, a continent that may be home to as ...

Catholicism is growing fast on the continent, yet Africans play a comparatively small role in church leadership. Cameroon, ...