If Catholicism's future is in Africa, as is so often touted, then when, not if, will there be an African pope in the modern era? There have been three popes who have hailed from North Africa, the last ...

According to Cardijnal Ambongo, he worked with the head of the DDF, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, and with Pope Francis to produce a statement that the permission for same-sex blessings did not ...

With the freezing of critical aid to African countries, the cardinal described Africa as 'a magnet for conflicts and fights over the natural resources so important to modern technology.' Cardinal ...

Each day between now and the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis, on a date yet to be set, John Allen is offering a profile of a different papabile, the Italian term for a man who could be ...

Congolese Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu urged developed nations to lead the way in addressing the current global climate crisis, describing it as "a tragic and striking example of structural sin" ...

ROME – Though it’s likely apocryphal, the story goes that during British rule of India, colonial officials became concerned about poisonous cobras in the city of Delhi and decided to offer a bounty ...

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo of Kinshasa, Congo, president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar, speaks to reporters during a news conference at the Vatican Oct. 7, 2023.

N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) – Pope John Paul II’s vision of the “Church as the Family of God” “was not only a theological ideal, but a true pastoral roadmap for a continent that had left behind ...

“I see many similarities between the problems of Amazonia and those of the Congo Basin,” Cardinal Friedolin Ambongo Besungu, O.F.M., told America, as the Synod of Bishops on the Pan-Amazonian region ...

A leading African cardinal has described the Catholic Church in Africa as "a champion of human development," saying that it's precisely the church that makes up for state deficiencies in many places.