Pope Francis on Sunday became the first pontiff to visit Mongolia and hold mass there. He also attempted to address the political tension between Mongolia and its neighbor China.

Pope Francis told reporters in his press pool, en route from the pontiff’s last overseas voyage to Africa, that he intends to visit Mongolia this fall and India in the next year VATICAN CITY ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — When Pope Francis travels to Mongolia this week, he will in some ways be completing a mission begun by the 13th-century Pope Innocent IV, who dispatched emissaries east to ...

Pope Francis ended his visit to Mongolia on Monday (September 4) with a stop to inaugurate the House of Mercy, a multi-purpose structure to provide temporary healthcare to the most needy in ...

The 86-year-old Francis, on the first papal visit to the Asian nation sandwiched between China and Russia, was feted with an official welcome ceremony that included a phalanx of Mongolian horsemen ...

Pope Francis arrived in Mongolia on Friday on a visit designed to encourage one of the world’s smallest and newest Catholic communities. It is the first time a pope has visited the landlocked ...

With China’s crackdown on religious minorities as a backdrop, Pope Francis has joined Mongolian shamans, Buddhist monks and a Russian Orthodox priest to highlight the role that religions can ...

Pope Francis has left hospital in Rome nine days after a hernia operation. It was the pontiff's second stint hospital this ...

Pope Francis arrived on Friday (September 1) in Mongolia, a predominantly Buddhist country with around just 1,450 Catholics that the ... Pope Francis arrives for first-ever Mongolia visit Posted ...