Pope Francis declared Friday that China was “a promise and a hope” for the Catholic Church, offering extensive praise for ...

Speaking aboard the papal plane, Pope Francis encouraged U.S. Catholics to vote with their conscience in the upcoming Nov. 5 ...

Pope Francis wrapped up a 12-day tour across the Southeast Asia region on Thursday, marking the longest international trip of ...

Pope Francis has arrived in East Timor, becoming the first pope to visit the largely Catholic country since it gained ...

Pope Francis received a rapturous welcome from ... struggling with post-war unity and nation building.” A leading pro-democracy figure during the Indonesian occupation was Bishop Belo, the ...

SETARA Institute is a think tank that advocates for democracy and human rights in ... and government civil servant who came to see Pope Francis. "We need to hold a heart-to-heart dialogue with ...

“The impending visit of Pope Francis to Indonesia this week could not be more timely, coming as it does after a tumultuous period during which the country’s democracy again rose up against an ...

Indonesia is proud of its religious diversity and its reputation for tolerance, but minorities, including Catholics, still ...

Since his papacy began in 2013, Pope Francis has signaled his intention ... a different kind of democracy,” said Ulil Abshar Abdalla, a leader of Nahdlatul Ulama, the country’s biggest Islamic ...

Pope Francis and Widodo met privately on the veranda ... regarding his human rights record and the future of Indonesia’s democracy. In the pope’s speech to roughly 300 local authorities ...