VATICAN CITY — Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Africans are hoping one of their own could become the first Black pope ... including the Church body that promotes social justice, human rights and world peace.

Pope Leo XIV has appealed to world leaders to pursue peace, not war, in his first Sunday address to crowds in St Peter’s Square, Vatican City. The new pope, formally Cardinal Robert Prevost, called ...

Several foundations have donated $1.5 million to help rebuild after arson gutted a historic Black church that played an ...

Live updates: Black smoke signals no pope named in today's first conclave ... "outside world." Before voting, the cardinals discuss the needs and challenges facing the Catholic Church.

“That’s the legacy of our church.” Founded in 1838 and part of the nation’s first independent Black denomination, the congregation laid the building’s cornerstone in 1881. AME churches ...