North Africa once produced Catholic popes who shaped Church traditions, including Easter Sunday and St Valentine’s Day. Will ...

Prediction markets won bragging rights last year when they correctly called the U.S. presidential election for Donald Trump.

Firefighters installed the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Friday which will emit white smoke to signal the election of a ...

Pope Francis smashed the stereotypical profile for a pontiff, becoming the Catholic Church's first leader from the Americas and the first non-Europea ...

Sports betting can take a back seat this month because people are weighing the odds on who will become the next pope.

“For us, it does not matter whether he is African, white, or Black. What matters is having a good, holy pope who can unite ...

Ghana's Cardinal Peter Turkson is seen as one of the Church's most influential men from Africa, where Christianity is quickly ...

Whispers of a possible African pope are getting louder, and at the centre of the speculation stands Cardinal Peter Turkson, a ...

Catholics are African, increasing the chances of a Pope from that continent. While the Church is losing influence in Europe ...

Cardinal Peter Turkson, a prominent figure from Ghana, is regarded as a significant African leader within the Catholic Church ...

As the Catholic Church moves towards selecting its next leader, global attention focuses on potential candidates.