In his first general audience since returning from the longest international trip of his pontificate, the pope expressed ...

When Pope Francis arrives Wednesday in Asia’s financial powerhouse Singapore for the last leg of a four-nation tour, he is ...

Pope Francis emphasized the importance of the Catholic Church reaching marginalized groups while in Papua New Guinea, a ...

Pope Francis landed in the island nation of Timor-Leste on Monday in one of the most controversial stops on his tour of Asian ...

Pope Francis is “popular among Catholics here, but may also be [seen as] influential among the general public, which sees him ...

Catholics from China, Vietnam and Malaysia who attended Pope Francis' Sept. 12 Mass in Singapore are hoping the pontiff might also become the first pope to visit their respectives countries, as well.

The 87-year-old Pope Francis publicly thanked God for allowing him "to do as an old pope what I would have liked to do as a ...

Francis is only the second pope to visit the city-state, which has about 210,000 Catholics among its 5.92 million people.

The people of Indonesia believe in gotong royong, literally, “joint bearing of burdens,” carrying something together, ...

He deemed former President Donald Trump's anti-migrant policies and Vice President Kamala Harris' support of abortion rights ...

Pope John Paul II was the first pope to visit Timor-Leste in 1989 when it was then occupied by Indonesia. The country gained its independence in 2002. Francis on Monday congratulated the nation on ...

All four countries that the pope will visit have been previously visited by his predecessors, and many have a long history of martyrdom and missionaries, including the Jesuit St. Francis Xavier.