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Leo XIV Pope: I am in Africa to encourage Catholics, not to debate with Trump

Salvatore Cernuzio / vaticannews.va: Pope Leo XIV gave a positive assessment of the three days just spent in Cameroon, a country that “represents the heart of Africa in many different ways, both English-speaking and French-speaking, and around 250 local languages.”   On the flight to Angola, the third leg of his Apostolic Journey across Africa, the Pope greeted the journalists traveling with him, just minutes after take-off, in order to thank them for their work, but also ...more

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