*Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, a 76-year-old Ghanaian prelate, is widely regarded as a leading candidate to succeed Pope Francis, who passed away on April 21, 2025. If elected, Turkson would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, seen here with Pope Francis in 2015, could become the first Asian pontiff - Wally Santana With the ...

Any baptized man can become pope, but traditionally he (and it is always a ‘he’) is elected from the college of Cardinals. This year, possible contenders range from Francis’ liberal-leaning secretary ...

Update: American Cardinal Robert Prevost has been chosen as the new pope and took the name Leo XIV — the first pope in history from the United States. "Every papal conclave comes down, in some sense, ...

Any baptized man can become pope, but traditionally he (and it is always a ‘he’) is elected from the college of Cardinals. This year, possible contenders range from Francis’ liberal-leaning secretary ...

As the Catholic world anticipates the selection of a new pope, Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana is once again considered a leading contender—potentially to become the first African pontiff in modern ...

His Eminence Peter Cardinal Appiah Turkson — President, Pontifical Council for Peace and Justice at the Vatican has urged African countries to address the problem of mass migration of their citizens ...

Ghanaian cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson attends the signature of the "Global Freedom Network" agreement on March 17, 2014 at the Vatican. Turkson spoke about "dignified work" at the Fortune TIME ...