First, those who embrace Pope Francis’ wide-ranging, modernising changes in the Catholic church. The reform-minded pope made it possible to advance a new church culture that respected the voice and ...

“The future of the Catholic church passes through Africa,” Ilo said ... a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. “We have all this attention ...

But St Francis Xavier Chapel, which has a strong claim to be the oldest surviving Catholic church in sub-Saharan Africa, ...

“For us, it does not matter whether he is African, white, or Black. What matters is having a good, holy pope who can unite Catholics across the world,” said Luka Lawrence Ndenge, an emergency officer ...

As the Catholic Church prepares for its May 14 conclave ... of gravity moves increasingly toward the Global South. Three prominent African prelates have emerged as serious contenders for the ...

Pastor Rick Warren, internationally known author of The Purpose Driven Life and The Purpose Driven Church, addressed the ...

Nowhere in the world is the Roman Catholic Church growing faster ... When he visited African migrants in southern Italy and later kissed the feet of South Sudan’s two competing warlords, his ...

It is not a western prototype that has to be replicated in Africa and the rest of the global south without regard to the social, spiritual and cultural contexts of churches in these regions.