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 wrapped up his historic four-day visit to Mongolia on Monday. It's the first time any pope has visited the majority-Buddhist country. CBS News foreign correspondent Chris Livesay ...

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 geopolitical angle of Pope Francis’ state visit to Mongolia is clear: The Vatican supports Mongolia’s democracy, respect for religious freedom, and peaceful foreign policy. Despite the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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