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POPE LEO XIV IN AFRICA

Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea
April 13-23

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Pope Leo’s Africa trip will be his longest trip yet

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A Vatican spokesman described the ambitious trip as “one of the longest stretches of time that the pope has been outside the Vatican.”

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