Overview
- Pope Leo XIV, who departs Monday, April 13, will visit Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea over 11 days with a packed route spanning nearly 18,000 kilometers and 18 flights.
- Vatican officials said no special security measures are planned, and the pope will speak in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish across roughly a dozen locations.
- In Algeria, the first-ever papal stop there, he will visit the Great Mosque of Algiers and travel to Annaba to honor St. Augustine, reflecting his identity as the first Augustinian pope.
- In Cameroon, he will lead a peace meeting in Bamenda and celebrate large public Masses as the Church presses for reconciliation in the Anglophone crisis that has killed over 6,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands.
- In Angola and Equatorial Guinea, he is expected to call for fair use of oil and mineral wealth, address corruption and human rights, and pray at Bata’s 2021 barracks blast site where more than 100 people died.