A fringe far-right populist party in Japan was one of the biggest winners in the weekend’s upper house election.

Pope Leo XIV is a member of the Order of Saint Augustine, the oldest monastic order, and as Prior General of the order, he ...

Pope Francis had called for the abolition of nuclear arms during his 2019 pilgrimage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a message widely welcomed in Japan, the only country to have suffered atomic bombings.

From the Philippines to South Korea, Pope Francis, who died Monday at the age of 88, is being remembered in many parts of Asia for his intensive engagement with the region.

The Vatican says Francis’ body will be transferred to St. Peter’s Basilica tomorrow morning to allow worshippers to pay their respects ahead of his funeral.

Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.

Here are key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday.

As Roman Catholics around the world mourn the death of Pope Francis, who was hospitalized with a complex lung infection and other health complications before passing away, the tri-state area pays ...

A pope chosen from “almost the ends of the Earth,” as he said upon his selection in 2013, Francis was a relentless advocate for migrants and marginalized people, as well as for the environment.

Francis was the first pope to visit a Catholic school in the US In a history-making trip in 2015, the pontiff visited Our Lady Queen of Angels School in East Harlem, New York.

Pope Francis, orginally of Argentina, succeeded Pope Benedict XVI, the first pope to retire in six centuries.