{"id":231152,"date":"2026-04-23T15:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-pope-leo-xiv-arrives-in-kilamba-for-open-air-mass\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:31:11","slug":"angola-pope-leo-xiv-arrives-in-kilamba-for-open-air-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-pope-leo-xiv-arrives-in-kilamba-for-open-air-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Pope Leo XIV Arrives in Kilamba for Open-Air Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Kilamba \u2014 Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Kilamba, Luanda, to lead a Pontifical Mass expected to draw over a million worshippers from across Angola and around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">From the early hours of the day, thousands of believers began to flock to the site, many of whom spent the night nearby to guarantee their presence at the Eucharistic celebration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The movement intensified at dawn, with the gates opening and the organization ensuring the orderly transportation of participants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604200125.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>Kilamba \u2014 Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Kilamba, Luanda, to lead a Pontifical Mass expected to draw over a million worshippers from across Angola and around the world. From the early hours of the day, thousands of believers began to flock to the site, many of whom spent the night nearby to guarantee their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":231153,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,8692,24852,37960,7883,257,48191,6579,254,52954],"class_list":["post-231152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-arrives","tag-kilamba","tag-leo","tag-mass","tag-news","tag-openair","tag-pope","tag-south-africa-today","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\/231152","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=231152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}