{"id":230209,"date":"2026-04-12T14:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-provincial-governor-encourages-public-participation-in-welcoming-pope-leo-xiv\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T14:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:32:23","slug":"angola-provincial-governor-encourages-public-participation-in-welcoming-pope-leo-xiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-provincial-governor-encourages-public-participation-in-welcoming-pope-leo-xiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Provincial Governor Encourages Public Participation in Welcoming Pope Leo Xiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Saurimo \u2014 The governor of Lunda-Sul, Gildo Matias, on Monday in Saurimo City called for the active and orderly participation of the population during the visit of Pope Leo XIV, scheduled to begin on April 20th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Gildo Matias made the appeal during the opening of the II Ordinary Meeting of the Lunda-Sul Government, reiterating that the Pope&#8217;s apostolic visit to the country and the city of Saurimo, in particular, is of extreme institutional and spiritual importance, reinforcing the bonds of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604070046.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saurimo \u2014 The governor of Lunda-Sul, Gildo Matias, on Monday in Saurimo City called for the active and orderly participation of the population during the visit of Pope Leo XIV, scheduled to begin on April 20th. Gildo Matias made the appeal during the opening of the II Ordinary Meeting of the Lunda-Sul Government, reiterating that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,7214,4269,37960,257,7932,6579,8707,5751,254,22199,52954],"class_list":["post-230209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-encourages","tag-governor","tag-leo","tag-news","tag-participation","tag-pope","tag-provincial","tag-public","tag-south-africa-today","tag-welcoming","tag-xiv"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}