{"id":230909,"date":"2026-04-21T15:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-pope-leo-xiv-first-pope-to-visit-muxima-sanctuary\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:26:12","slug":"angola-pope-leo-xiv-first-pope-to-visit-muxima-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-pope-leo-xiv-first-pope-to-visit-muxima-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Pope Leo XIV, First Pope to Visit Muxima Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Luanda \u2014 Pope Leo XIV became the first Supreme Pontiff to visit the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Muxima, in the town of Muxima, Icolo e Bengo province on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Holy Father led a religious ceremony in the chapel of Our Lady of Muxima, in a moment of profound devotion that marked his visit to Angola&#8217;s main Marian sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">There, the Pope also presided over the recitation of the rosary at Angola&#8217;s largest Catholic pilgrimage center, which welcomes thousands of faithful annually, especially in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604200134.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>Luanda \u2014 Pope Leo XIV became the first Supreme Pontiff to visit the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Muxima, in the town of Muxima, Icolo e Bengo province on Sunday. The Holy Father led a religious ceremony in the chapel of Our Lady of Muxima, in a moment of profound devotion that marked his visit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230910,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,37960,54215,257,6579,7333,254,6250,52954],"class_list":["post-230909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-leo","tag-muxima","tag-news","tag-pope","tag-sanctuary","tag-south-africa-today","tag-visit","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\/230909","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=230909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}