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Speaking with members of the Catholic University of Central Africa, the Pope highlights the university’s role in forming future leaders and professionals who will have the responsibility to work for the common good in their own society and around the world.

Pope Leo XIV makes a private visit to St. Paul Catholic Hospital in Douala, visiting and praying with patients, families, and hospital staff.

Upon returning to Yaoundé, Pope Leo XIV meets with several representatives of Cameroon’s Islamic communities, encouraging people of all faiths to work toward peace based on mutual respect.

The Holy Father will ultimately spend several days in Cameroon before heading on to Angola and then Equatorial Guinea during his first apostolic journey to Africa.

Pope Leo XIV visits the Ngul Zamba Orphanage in Yaoundé, and encourages children who have faced hardship to see themselves as part of a loving family, thanking caregivers for their dedicated service.

During his first official event in Cameroon, Pope Leo XIV calls for peace, justice, and a renewed commitment to the common good, highlighting that peace “must not be reduced to a slogan.”

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Returning to the lands walked by his spiritual father, St. Augustine, Pope Leo XIV visits the archaeological site of Hippo in Annaba on his second day in Algeria.

In his first address in Algeria, Pope Leo XIV reiterates that God wants peace for all nations—a peace that is “an expression of justice and dignity”—and encourages the Algerian people to continue to keep God as a central place in their heritage.

On Divine Mercy Sunday, Pope Leo XIV highlights the Eucharist as essential for sustaining faith.

On Divine Mercy Sunday, the pope prayed for Ukraine, Lebanon, and Sudan.

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On Easter Day, Archbishop Richard Moth addressed the faithful of the Diocese of Westminster, inviting them to proclaim the peace of the Risen Christ anew …

On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo appeals to world leaders to choose “not to dominate others, but to encounter them”. He also announces that he will lead a prayer vigil for peace next Saturday, April 11th, in Saint Peter’s Basilica.

At the Easter Sunday Mass, Pope Leo reminds us that the Easter proclamation that Christ is risen from the dead “opens us up to a hope that never fails, to a light that never fades, to a fullness of joy that nothing can take away: death has been conquered forever; death no longer has power over us!”

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Easter is the most important liturgical time for Catholics. It celebrates Jesus’s victory over sin and death and salvation for mankind. It is God’s greatest …

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