Pope Leo XIV’s grandparents on his mother’s side lived in New Orleans before they migrated to Chicago, where his mother, ...

The election of Pope Leo XIV, who is the first U.S. pope and has Creole roots, is raising more awareness about the complexity ...

After Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected pope, genealogists got to work. What they found surprised them.

Afrikaans Marks 100 Years as Official Language Amid Complex HistoryAfrikaans became South Africa's second official language on 8 May 1925, alongside English, replacing Dutch, which had been one of the ...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has ended an historic visit to South Africa, signalling a dramatic improvement in the once-strained relations between the two nations. The visit marked a ...

South Africa will push to have United States President Donald Trump’s punitive 30% tariff — which has been stayed for 90 days — permanently dropped “dramatically” or at least to the ...

South African taxpayers have forked out an estimated R521 billion over the last 15 years to keep State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) alive, and have received nothing in return. Despite the bailouts ...

CAPE TOWN - South African entrepreneur and innovation leader, Jamie Thurston Wyngaard, to receive the Global Forty Under 40 Award, in Dubai. This as his company, Loop, has grown to a valuation of ...

A South African court set aside an R8 billion ($425 million) contract between the state rail operator and a company that’s now a unit of Wabtec Corp for 233 diesel locomotives, part of a long ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Pastor Josh Sullivan, an American citizen abducted by gunmen in South Africa last week in front of his congregation, was rescued by police on Tuesday following a shootout between rescuers and his ...

(WATE) — A pastor with Maryville connections who was abducted in South Africa while preaching a sermon on April 11 has been rescued rescued following a shootout between suspects and South ...