It's very possible the next pope could be from Africa, where the Catholic Church continues to add millions of members.

This was going to be a column about Middle Eastern politics. How suffering Gazans had finally risen against Hamas, the ...

Some of the top candidates, ranked by Italian Vatican watcher Gaetano Masciullo and Vaticanists Edward Pentin and Diane ...

Potential successors to Pope Francis are Ghana’s Peter Turkson, Luis Tagle of the Philippines and Hungary’s Peter Erdo.

Maria Ressa, the journalist who earned the Nobel Peace Prize for her attempts to save freedom of expression in the ...

Just thinking about the run-up to the May 2028 presidential elections gives me the jitters. For sure, it’s going to be one hell of a ride, with the road riddled with potholes – deep, dark and dirty as ...

The debate then turned to the qualifications and backgrounds of the two judge candidates, with many, notably minority senators such as Angkana Neelapaijit, Ratchaneekorn Thongthip, and Dr Premsak ...

Japan and the Philippines, both U.S. allies, have in recent years stepped up joint exercises and defense cooperation. In 2020, Tokyo and Manila agreed on the export of Japanese air radar systems ...