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“I’ve been waiting a year for this trip,” said the head of the Catholics on the plane to the journalists…

Kinshasa, DR Congo —  Pope Francis on Tuesday is expected to land in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa’s largest…

They still hardly let anyone through in Ndolo. At the barrier at the domestic airport, soldiers only wave passengers past…

Vatican City —  Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as…

KINSHASA —  Pope Francis’s visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo will remind the world not to ignore decades-long conflicts…

Vatican City —  Pope Francis condemned Iran’s execution of protesters for the first time on Monday in his traditional New…

Tens of thousands of people filed into St. Peter’s Basilica Monday to pay their respects to the late Pope Benedict…

Long queues of believers formed early in the morning in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, wanting to pay their last…

Long queues of believers formed early in the morning in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, wanting to pay their last…

On March 17, 2009 – almost exactly four years after taking office – the recently deceased Pope Benedict XVI. on…