{"id":231216,"date":"2026-04-24T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-catholic-faithful-experience-nostalgic-moments-upon-pope-leos-arrival-in-kilamba\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T03:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:32:00","slug":"angola-catholic-faithful-experience-nostalgic-moments-upon-pope-leos-arrival-in-kilamba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-catholic-faithful-experience-nostalgic-moments-upon-pope-leos-arrival-in-kilamba\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Catholic Faithful Experience Nostalgic Moments Upon Pope Leo&#8217;s Arrival in Kilamba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Luanda \u2014 Hundreds of faithful gathered in an atmosphere of euphoria, singing, and deep devotion to welcome the Pope at the open-air mass, a moment marked by tears, joy, and memories that reinforced the faith and sense of unity among those present.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The arrival of Pope Leo XIV transformed the space into a veritable sea of faith, emotion, and memory for thousands of Catholic faithful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">From the early hours of the day, entire families, young and old, gathered to secure a place and closely follow the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604200124.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 Hundreds of faithful gathered in an atmosphere of euphoria, singing, and deep devotion to welcome the Pope at the open-air mass, a moment marked by tears, joy, and memories that reinforced the faith and sense of unity among those present. The arrival of Pope Leo XIV transformed the space into a veritable sea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":231217,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,11961,10991,8086,7426,24852,54253,14792,257,54252,6579,254],"class_list":["post-231216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-arrival","tag-catholic","tag-experience","tag-faithful","tag-kilamba","tag-leos","tag-moments","tag-news","tag-nostalgic","tag-pope","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/231216","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=231216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}