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 ...

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.

With the papal conclave that will select the next pontiff set to begin next week, all eyes are on nations with large Catholic ...

As about 135 cardinals prepare to elect the next pope, thousands of Italians are already doing the same in an online game.