{"id":230635,"date":"2026-04-18T03:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-pope-leo-excoriates-tyrants-waging-war-instead-of-peace\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T03:20:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:20:26","slug":"cameroon-pope-leo-excoriates-tyrants-waging-war-instead-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-pope-leo-excoriates-tyrants-waging-war-instead-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Pope Leo Excoriates &#8216;Tyrants&#8217; Waging War Instead of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><em>Pope Leo XIV has admonished those waging war in the name of god and slammed &#8220;tyrants&#8221; destroying the world and its resources. The pontiff has stepped up his criticism of senseless violence, angering US President Trump.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">As\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/pope-leo-xiv\/t-72486328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pope Leo XIV<\/a>\u00a0continues his\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/pope-leo-opens-first-african-visit-with-stop-in-algeria\/a-76758688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Africa tour<\/a>, he has remained steadfast in his condemnation of war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">On Thursday, the head of the Roman Catholic Church renewed his message of peace in\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/cameroon\/t-67210591\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cameroon<\/a>, presiding over a meeting designed to foster dialogue in a place that has been\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\"...<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604170091.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 has admonished those waging war in the name of god and slammed &#8220;tyrants&#8221; destroying the world and its resources. The pontiff has stepped up his criticism of senseless violence, angering US President Trump. As\u00a0Pope Leo XIV\u00a0continues his\u00a0Africa tour, he has remained steadfast in his condemnation of war. On Thursday, the head of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":230636,"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\/00660147:47490f1de55632045136969375084ed6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,54194,37960,257,6157,6579,254,54195,54196,6618],"class_list":["post-230635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-excoriates","tag-leo","tag-news","tag-peace","tag-pope","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tyrants","tag-waging","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660147:47490f1de55632045136969375084ed6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230635","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=230635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}