{"id":230299,"date":"2026-04-13T14:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/africa-pope-leo-sets-off-on-african-tour-focused-on-peace-and-unity\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:54:19","slug":"africa-pope-leo-sets-off-on-african-tour-focused-on-peace-and-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/africa-pope-leo-sets-off-on-african-tour-focused-on-peace-and-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Pope Leo Sets Off on African Tour Focused on Peace and Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em>Pope Leo XIV on Monday begins his most ambitious trip since becoming head of the Catholic Church, travelling across four African countries with a focus on peace, inequality and interfaith dialogue.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The 70-year-old will cover more than 18,000 kilometres across\u00a0<a class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/algeria\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Algeria<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/cameroon\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Cameroon<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/angola\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Angola<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/equatorial-guinea\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Equatorial Guinea<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 delivering 11 speeches and presiding over seven masses before returning on 23 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">From conflict and human rights to migration and corruption, the US-born pontiff is expected to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604130099.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV on Monday begins his most ambitious trip since becoming head of the Catholic Church, travelling across four African countries with a focus on peace, inequality and interfaith dialogue. The 70-year-old will cover more than 18,000 kilometres across\u00a0Algeria,\u00a0Cameroon,\u00a0Angola\u00a0and\u00a0Equatorial Guinea\u00a0\u2013 delivering 11 speeches and presiding over seven masses before returning on 23 April. From [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":230300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670263:c7cd092843079cb8709670dc02dcd344:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4380,377,10060,37960,257,6157,6579,7123,254,8160,4019],"class_list":["post-230299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-cameroon-news","tag-focused","tag-leo","tag-news","tag-peace","tag-pope","tag-sets","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tour","tag-unity"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670263:c7cd092843079cb8709670dc02dcd344:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230299","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}