JAKARTA, Indonesia — A New Zealand pilot held hostage for more than a year in the restive Papua region of Indonesia was freed ...

Violence among illegal miners in Papua New Guinea has left between 20 and 50 people dead, a United Nations official said Monday. The fighting started days ago and is ...

Leste, Papua New Guinea and Singapore, the head of the Catholic Church showed that the Vatican — like many other Western ...

Pope Francis wrapped up an arduous 12-day tour of the Asia-Pacific on Friday, defying health concerns to connect with ...

VANIMO, Papua New Guinea (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated the Catholic Church of the peripheries on Sunday as he traveled to ...

Francis will be the first pope to visit the country, where about 98 percent of its 1.3 million people are Catholics, since ...

Pope Francis was set to hold one of the biggest masses of his papacy in East Timor on Tuesday, with more than half of the country's 1.3 million people expected to attend.

Timor Leste, or East Timor, is a Southeast Asian nation that occupies half of the island of Timor and is almost the size of ...

By Asad Mirza Pope Francis arrived in Muslim-majority Indonesia on Tuesday, kicking off a four-nation tour of the ...

Pope Francis arrived in the tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor on Monday for the penultimate stop of the 87-year-old ...