US EditionLeo XIV to make history with first-ever papal visit to Algeria
The 10-day trip includes 25 planned speeches and aims to promote Catholic-Muslim dialogue and draw attention to Africa’s needs, Vatican officials said.
- On Monday, Pope Leo XIV arrived in Algiers, marking the first-ever papal visit to Algeria as part of an 11-day African tour aimed at building bridges between Christian and Muslim worlds.
- The visit holds deep personal significance for Leo, an Augustinian pontiff who views Algeria as having a 'special place' because St. Augustine, the fifth-century theologian, laid foundations for the 13th-century order Leo belongs to.
- Leo's itinerary includes visiting the Great Mosque of Algiers and paying tribute at the Martyrs Memorial, where he will pray privately for 19 priests and nuns killed during Algeria's 1992–2002 civil war.
- Human rights groups urged Leo last week to push for religious freedom in Algeria, where fewer than 10,000 Catholics live among 48 million people, seeking a 'message of encouragement and solidarity' for the minority community.
- Spanning nearly 18,000 km, Leo's 11-day tour continues to Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea across 11 cities, concluding April 23, 2026, with 25 planned speeches addressing resource exploitation and Catholic-Muslim dialogue.
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The Independent (US)Pope making first papal visit to Algeria to launch Africa trip and honor locally born St. Augustine
Pope Leo XIV is embarking Monday on the first-ever papal trip to Algeria. He aims to promote Christian-Muslim coexistence at a time of global conflict. He also will honor the locally born inspiration of his religious spirituality, St. Augustine. Leo’s…
Pope Leo XIV will begin this Monday an ambitious tour of the African continent that will take him to visit four countries — Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea — in 11 days. The American pontiff will travel from 13 to 23 April about 18,000 kilometers and will take 19 flights to visit eleven cities as part of his first great papal trip. So far, Leon XIV has visited Turkey and Lebanon, both last year, to complete an apostolic visit tha…
Pope Leo XIV is leaving today for his first trip to Africa.
Pope Leo to begin 10-day Africa tour on mission to spotlight continent's needs
The first U.S. pope heads to Algeria for two days before continuing to Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea in a whirlwind tour to 11 cities and towns, traversing nearly 18,000 km (11,185 miles) over 18 flights
Leon XIV is on Monday the most ambitious journey he has made so far, a eleven-day tour of four African countries that will test his physical strength and the delicate Vatican geopolitics. He will begin in Algeria, where no pope has been before, and will cross the continent to Equatorial Guinea, the only Spanish-speaking nation in sub-Saharan Africa. On the way, in Cameroon he will be in a war zone and in Angola he will visit a church desecrated …
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