Africa

Pope Leo XIV led tens of thousands of Angolan Catholics in praying the rosary April 19 at southern Africa’s most visited Catholic shrine.

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV has warned that the rise of artificial intelligence threatens to change humanity’s relationship with truth, calling on Catholic universities to help form …

“Today your feet are standing on the soil of Bamenda that has drunk the blood of many of our children,” Archbishop Andrew Nkea of Bamenda told the pope. 

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV brought joy to 64 orphaned and abandoned children on the evening of April 15 when he visited the Ngul Zamba orphanage in …

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV arrived in Cameroon on April 15, delivering a forceful appeal for peace to a nation scarred by years of separatist violence, telling …

While the pope is a pastor, he can offer “humble suggestions” on how Cameroon could resolve the crisis, Bamenda’s Archbishop Andrew Nkea said.

ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO YAOUNDE, Cameroon (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV spoke to journalists aboard the papal plane on April 15 on the five-hour flight from Algeria to …

ANNABA, Algeria (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV offered Mass April 14 at the basilica built near the site where St. Augustine died nearly 1,600 years ago, making a deeply personal …

Archbishop Nkea highlighted a rare sense of shared expectation across divisions, with diaspora communities, political figures and even separatist fighters.

“It’s important for us to get the message out that Western Christianity is fundamentally African, in the way that Eastern Christianity is fundamentally Greek.”