Pope Francis was set to hold one of the biggest masses of his papacy on Tuesday in East Timor, with more than half of the ...

New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been freed from more than 18 months in captivity in Indonesia's Papua, the Indonesian police said in a statement on Saturday. An armed ...

New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been released by separatist rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua region, 19 months after his kidnapping. Mehrtens had been held captive since February 2023. The ...

Tourists have discovered a “magical” island with crystal clear waters they say is worth the long journey from Bali.

In East Timor, the pontiff visited a home for disabled children, spoke to Catholic clergy and religious, met local ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The age of world leaders may be hotly debated elsewhere, but in Indonesia this week ... to this nation, to this wonderful and varied archipelago, do not grow weary of ...

Pope Francis delivered a message of hope, humility and renewal on Tuesday during a Mass that drew about 600,000 faithful in ...

True freedom means respecting and caring for our common home, Francis said in his speech to estimated 3,000 youth ...

Pope Francis was greeted Sunday afternoon by a crowd of 20,000 people in what he had called “the periphery of the peripheries,” the coastal city of Vanimo in Papua New Guinea. Located in the northwest ...

An estimated 600,000 people in East Timor, just under half its population, turned out in the baking heat on Tuesday for a ...

As he prepared to leave East Timor, half of whose population is under the age of 30, Pope Francis told young people to ...