{"id":230338,"date":"2026-04-14T03:01:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-archbishop-of-douala-hopes-for-the-release-of-prisoners-and-a-change-of-mentality-on-the-occasion-of-pope-leo-xivs-visit\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T03:01:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:01:32","slug":"cameroon-archbishop-of-douala-hopes-for-the-release-of-prisoners-and-a-change-of-mentality-on-the-occasion-of-pope-leo-xivs-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-archbishop-of-douala-hopes-for-the-release-of-prisoners-and-a-change-of-mentality-on-the-occasion-of-pope-leo-xivs-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Archbishop of Douala Hopes for the Release of Prisoners and a Change of Mentality On the Occasion of Pope Leo Xiv&#8217;s Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"505\">Yaound\u00e9 \u2014 May the visit of Pope Leo XIV offer an opportunity to release prisoners held without trial. Archbishop Samuel Kleda of Douala expressed this wish during a press conference on April 9. &#8220;The Pope is coming to proclaim the Good News to us,&#8221; said Archbishop Kleda. &#8220;What is the Good News for us in Cameroon?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;It is peace. At this moment, we all need peace in Cameroon. With his visit, the Pope is inviting us all to be peacemakers,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The Pope is coming to proclaim the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604130651.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>Yaound\u00e9 \u2014 May the visit of Pope Leo XIV offer an opportunity to release prisoners held without trial. Archbishop Samuel Kleda of Douala expressed this wish during a press conference on April 9. &#8220;The Pope is coming to proclaim the Good News to us,&#8221; said Archbishop Kleda. &#8220;What is the Good News for us in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":230339,"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":[376],"tags":[258,256,10179,4698,377,7796,560,10002,37960,8236,257,9206,6579,6444,6011,254,6250,54022],"class_list":["post-230338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-archbishop","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-change","tag-douala","tag-hopes","tag-leo","tag-mentality","tag-news","tag-occasion","tag-pope","tag-prisoners","tag-release","tag-south-africa-today","tag-visit","tag-xivs"],"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\/230338","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=230338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}