In Papua New Guinea, he told the crowd, he was impressed by the dedication of the missionaries -- including a group of ...

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 ...

Papua New Guinea is one of the 1,126 mission territories of the Catholic Church, whose first evangelizers arrived there in 1889. Today, its population is 30% Catholic, a percentage that increases ...

The Holy Father arrived Friday for a three-day visit, his second stop on a 12-day apostolic journey to Asia and Oceania. The population of Papua New Guinea is currently 30% Catholic, with growth ...