Gelasius is also responsible for a popular celebration which is still marked every year - establishing St Valentine's Day on ...

With 135 cardinals eligible to vote, the coming conclave is set to be the largest in the history of the Catholic Church and ...

Despite its diminutive size on the all-too-common world maps that use Mercator projection, Africa is the second-largest ...

With talks between Congolese officials and rebel representatives showing no sign of resolution, those displaced by violence ...

Top contenders include Ghana's Cardinal Turkson and Congo's Cardinal Ambongo, although insiders say none is a clear ...

Africans are hoping one of their own could become the first Black pope in modern history and build on Francis's legacy of ...

Corneille Nangaa, the leader of Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) movement, has emphasized the need for a violence-free DR Congo to foster peace and economic development. To reduce the level of violence in ...

Children including toddlers represent more than a third of victims in nearly 10,000 cases of rape and other forms of sexual violence committed in eastern Congo in the first two months of the year ...

Congo’s government and Rwanda-backed rebels are meeting in the Gulf Arab state of Qatar for much-anticipated talks in a renewed push for peace in the conflict-battered eastern Congo, where the ...

Belgium has denied claims that it has sent troops to engage rebels in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, amid a diplomatic spat between Belgium and Rwanda. News reports and social ...

The US Department of Justice has charged four Americans for their role in an attempted coup in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after three of the men were returned to US custody this week ...