The Democratic Republic of East Timor — also known as Timor-Leste — is a Catholic country based on history and current reality. The nation that became independent on May 20, 2002, is now only 18 years ...

Upon his arrival in the Catholic island of East Timor on Monday, Pope Francis entrusted the new country to the Blessed Virgin Mary, “I entrust East Timor and all its people to the protection of the ...

Brazilian Catholics worship at the shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida in October 2020. (Credit: Andre Penner/AP.) Listen SÃO PAULO – While fallout from Pope Francis’s Oct. 4-29 Synod of Bishops on ...

SÃO PAULO, Brazil – A declining proportion of Catholics and accelerated growth of Evangelical denominations in Brazil since the 1970s have frequently caused anxiety for the Catholic Church, which ...

Pope Francis during his 12-year pontificate elevated a large majority of the current cardinal-electors, some of whom serve countries with very small Catholic populations, such as Pakistan, Iran and ...