Pope Leo XIV has entered the final stage of his first apostolic journey to Africa, an 11-day visit that has taken him across Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea. The trip, running from April 13 to April 23, has served as the most substantial foreign test of his young pontificate and has combined pastoral appeals, public diplomacy and repeated calls for peace, justice and social renewal.
Arriving in Equatorial Guinea for the closing leg of the visit, the Pope turned his attention to a country marked by both natural wealth and deep social inequality. Leo’s final full day there was due to include Mass, meetings with young people and families, and visits to a technology school, a prison and a memorial for victims of the 2021 explosion in Bata.
