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Pope Leo blasts 'exploitation' on visit to resource-rich Angola

Pope Leo XIV condemned exploitation and corruption by the rich and powerful on Monday during a visit to Angola's diamond-rich northeast, returning to a theme of his 11-day tour of Africa."We can see

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Pope Leo decries exploitation by world's 'authoritarians' during Angola trip

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Pope Leo visits Angola's diamond-rich northeast

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Pope Leo XIV holds a giant open air Mass in Angola

Tens of thousands of people attended a giant open-air mass by Pope Leo XIV outside the Angolan capital Sunday, where he delivered a message of hope to the resource-rich country marked by poverty and i...

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Pope urges Angola to heal divisions at events drawing 130,000

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Pope Leo XIV recalls 'great suffering' at historic slave trade shrine in Angola

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Pope Leo XIV challenges Angola's leaders while delivering a message of encouragement for its people

In his visit to Cameroon, Leo has sought to encourage especially young people to have hope despite senses of disillusionment, and he has demanded elites stop exploiting the land and its people for pro...

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Pope prays at Catholic shrine in Angola that was a center of African slave trade

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Thousands gather for Pope Leo's first mass in Angola

Pope Leo prays at Catholic shrine in Angola that was a center of African slave trade

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday recalled the “sorrow and great suffering” Angolans endured for centuries, as the American pope prayed at a Catholic shrine located at the site of an important hub of the African slave trade during Portugal’s colonial

In Angola, Pope Faces the Legacy of Colonialism

His visit includes a trip to a shrine where enslaved Africans were baptized before being forced into the treacherous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Pope Leo brings message of unity to Angola, scarred by legacy of civil war and inequality

Since his election last May, Pope Leo XIV has hammered home the theme of unity. But nowhere has that message taken on sharper contours than in Angola, where the long shadow of civil war and stark inequality continues to fracture the nation.

Pope Leo XIV challenges Angola’s leaders while delivering a message of encouragement for its people

Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Angola and hopes to bring a message of joy and encouragement to its long-suffering people.

In Angola, love for an American pope but not for an American president

In Luanda, Catholics expressed love and admiration for Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, but not so much for President Trump because of the war in Iran.