Pope Leo XIV

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Courtney Mares

José Capita, 26, traveled two days from the Diocese of Cabinda to be present at the Mass with Pope Leo XIV in Kilamba, Angola. 🙏 🇦🇴

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Franciscan Brother Turíbio da Cruz, 23, serves the poor in Luanda, Angola.

He said is is a particular joy to have Pope Leo XIV visit Angola this year as the Church celebrates the Jubilee Year of St Francis.

“We work with the poor,” he said. “What we want is to be close to the people.”

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My heart is full hearing this beautiful choir at Pope Leo XIV’s Mass in Kilamba, Angola. 🇦🇴

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Graffi Pikin🇨🇲

Apr 16

Whether you are Catholic or not, seeing the Pope in Bamenda has brought so much happiness to our people!

When I tell you our people have been through so much! It has been a DECADE since I’ve seen so much joy in Bamenda!

GOD BLESS OUR HOMELAND BAMENDA!
GOD BLESS GRAFFILAND🇨🇲

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The map route on day six, and flight path to Angola.


Day 6 of Pope Leo's trip to Africa: On to Angola

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Courtney Mares

Apr 18
BREAKING from the papal plane:

Pope Leo XIV rejects media “narrative” his Africa comments targeted Trump

The pope told journalists aboard the papal flight to Angola today:

“There has been a certain narrative that has not been accurate in all its aspects.”

“Because of the political situation created when on the first day of the trip the President of the United States made some comments about myself, much of what has been written since then has been more commentary on commentary trying to interpret what has been said.”

“Just one little example: the talk that I gave at the prayer meeting for peace a couple of days ago was prepared two weeks ago, well before the president ever commented on myself and on the message of peace that I am promoting. And yet as it happens, it was looked at as if I was trying to debate again the president, which is not in my interest at all.”

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EWTN News

Pope Leo XIV spent time in silent prayer to Mama Muxima, beloved Marian devotion of Angola’s faithful.

He visited Kilamba and entrusted the country to Our Lady of Muxima — a heart-to-heart moment with the Mother who has accompanied Angolans through war, hope, and rebuilding. Mama Muxima means “Mother of the Heart,” a title born from the small riverside shrine of Our Lady of the Conception of Muxima, built in 1599 on the Kwanza River and now the most important pilgrimage site in Angola, where millions come each year to entrust their sufferings and their future to her.

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Vatican News

Translated from French
📿 The Pope and 30,000 faithful recited the rosary this Sunday at the Marian sanctuary of Mamã Muxima in #Angola 🇦🇴 ->https://bit.ly/4cPnd3z

https://x.com/vaticannews_fr/status/2045929229758435498

Rich Raho

Pope Leo at Sanctuary of Mama Muxima: “Build a better world, welcoming, where there are no more wars, nor injustices, nor misery, nor dishonesty. It is love that must triumph, not war!"

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Mama Muxima - the Mother of the Heart in the Kimbundu language

Vatican News

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Translated from Italian
In #Muxima the Virgin is venerated under the name of Mother of the Heart, as the Angolans call her in the Kimbundu language. Their joys and hopes, thrilled at the chance to gather with the #Pope

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Ugochukwu Ugwoke, ISch

Apr 18
Some photos from Pope Leo's meeting with the government authorities in Luanda, Angola.

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Ugochukwu Ugwoke, ISch

Over 100,000 attended the Holy Mass presided over by Pope Leo in Kilamba, Angola.


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The crowds are full of joy.

Ugochukwu Ugwoke, ISch

A video from today's Holy Mass celebrated by Pope Leo in Angola.

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Ugochukwu Ugwoke, ISch

Apr 18
A 500-member choir, representing the Archdiocese of Saurimo in their final rehearsals ahead of Pope Leo's Sunday Mass in Angola tomorrow.


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Another beautiful choir

Catholic Sat

I’m biased obviously, but nothing beats these harmonies in Portuguese.

Worship worthy of Almighty God.

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Christopher Hale

NEW: The Bishop of Palm Beach — the Florida diocese that includes Mar-a-Lago — distributed this message at Mass today condemning President Trump's attacks on Pope Leo XIV.


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Catholic Sat


‘Tu es Petrus’ sung beautifully in Portuguese as the faithful in Angola welcome His Holiness Pope Leo XIV ahead of Sunday Mass this morning.

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Michał Kłosowski 🇵🇱🇮🇹🇻🇦

Apr 19
Just
@Pontifex
Leon. He did it again. And once again, he made Angola fall in love with him.


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Michał Kłosowski 🇵🇱🇮🇹🇻🇦

Third time’s the charm. But this time, personal secretary, Fr. Edgard Iván Rimaycuna Inga, suddenly pointed into the distance — balconies across the street were filling up, people leaning out just to see Pope Leo. So when he saw them, he of course blessed them too.

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Courtney Mares
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The joyful welcome for Pope Leo XIV this morning at a nursing home in the city of Saurimo in northeastern Angola 🇦🇴

Some of the 74 elderly residents were rejected by their families due to superstitious beliefs.

(🎥: Vatican press pool)

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Courtney Mares reposted

Pope Leo XIV

The care of the weakest is a very important sign of the quality of the social life of a nation. Let us remember that the elderly are in need of assistance, but first and foremost need to be listened to, because they preserve the wisdom of a people. We owe them gratitude, because they have faced great difficulties for the good of the community. #ApostolicJourney #Angola

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[Kryztian]

it sounds like His Holiness might be an anti-globalist. Else where I have seen him attack "technocracy" and now he is criticizing "colonization" which, to me, is just the 18th and 19th century from of globalism. (The current form would be "post colonialism", "globalism", or "kleptocracy")

Pope Leo criticizes ‘colonization’ of African resources
The proliferation of armed conflicts is often driven by the exploitation of oil and mineral deposits, the pontiff has said
https://www.rt.com/africa/638931-pop...-colonization/



Pope Leo XIV has criticized the “colonization” of Africa’s mineral resources in a speech in Equatorial Guinea, one of the continent’s top oil producers, where nearly half of the population still lives in poverty.

The pontiff arrived in the central African nation on Tuesday for the final leg of his 11-day tour of the continent, having previously visited Algeria, Cameroon, and Angola. He was warmly welcomed by flag-waving and cheering crowds in the administrative capital, Malabo.

In his address to Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and other officials, Pope Leo echoed the words of Pope Francis, who passed away one year ago, stating, “We must also say ‘thou shalt not’ to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills.”

“It is clear today that the proliferation of armed conflicts is often driven by the exploitation of oil and mineral deposits, with no regard for international law or the self-determination of peoples,” he said.

Leo’s visit is the first papal trip to the country since Pope John Paul II visited in 1982. His remarks come at a time when the administration of US President Donald Trump has announced plans to create a minerals trading bloc with its allies. Washington has intensified efforts to secure deals in critical minerals with several African nations, aiming to challenge China’s dominance in the sector and the broader region.

A peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to end decades of violence in eastern Congo, mediated by Trump, also includes plans to establish a regional economic framework tied to US investment in the country’s cobalt, coltan, and other critical minerals sectors.

Equatorial Guinea possesses significant oil wealth and is one of the richest economies in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, this wealth has not translated into broad prosperity, with poverty remaining widespread in the former Spanish colony, according to a World Bank report published last November.

President Obiang Nguema, in power since 1979, has faced long-standing accusations of corruption, mismanagement, and human rights abuses, including from the US and France. The African nation’s authorities have repeatedly dismissed these claims, calling them politically motivated and accusing foreign powers of attempting to interfere in the country’s internal affairs.

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Catholic Sat

Pope Leo XIV receives an incredible welcome from inmates as he visits a prison in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.

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Courtney Mares

Hello from the second largest Catholic Church in Africa! 🙏 🌍

The Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Mongomo, Equatorial Guinea for Mass with Pope Leo XIV.

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camillao 🕊️💙

“God never abandons you” said Pope Leo during a moving moment of encounter with prisoners in Equatorial Guinea

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[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Kryztian (here)
it sounds like His Holiness might be an anti-globalist. Else where I have seen him attack "technocracy" and now he is criticizing "colonization" which, to me, is just the 18th and 19th century from of globalism. (The current form would be "post colonialism", "globalism", or "kleptocracy")

Pope Leo criticizes ‘colonization’ of African resources
The proliferation of armed conflicts is often driven by the exploitation of oil and mineral deposits, the pontiff has said
https://www.rt.com/africa/638931-pope-leo-criticizes-africa-minerals-colonization

Just a small personal comment. This absolutely needed to be said. I'm not a Catholic and have never been one, but I'm rapidly becoming a very strong fan of this Pope.

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Ugochukwu Ugwoke, ISch

Pope Leo incensing this beautiful image of our Our Lady of Bisila, Mother and Patroness of Equatorial Guinea during the final Mass of his apostolic visit to Africa.

Clothed in white and blue, carrying the Child Jesus on her back in the traditional African way, the Virgin of Bisila shows a Mother who walks with her people in every struggle and hope. According to local tradition, she appeared to a humble Bubi woman on Bioko Island in the early 20th century (exact year is not clearly attested), and devotion to her grew until she became the beloved heart of the nation’s Marian faith.
Virgen de Bisila, pray for us and for all of Africa.

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ROME REPORTS

👩‍🍼Pope Leo XIV's EMOTIONAL moment before image of Our Lady of Bisila in Equatorial Guinea

🙏At the end of the mass, Pope Leo sang the Marian antiphon “Regina Coeli” in thanksgiving before an image of Our Lady of Bisila, depicted carrying the Child Jesus on her back.

https://x.com/romereports/status/2047273629931454640