Pope heads to epicenter of Cameroon’s separatist conflict to preach message of peace - AP News

Pope heads to epicenter of Cameroon’s separatist conflict to preach message of peace  AP News

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The pontiff was unusually forthright in his address at the presidential palace.

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Pope urges Cameroon's leaders to examine 'conscience', tackle corruption

Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday urged Cameroon's leaders to examine their "conscience" and tackle corruption and rights abuses, in a pointed speech on the first day of his visit to the central African country. In his address in an unusually direct tone to officials, including President Paul Biya, 93, who has led the central African country with a tight grip since 1982, Leo urged Cameroon's authorities to "serve as bridges, never as sources of division, even when insecurity seems prevalent".

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Pope Leo says world ‘being ravaged by handful of tyrants’ after Trump attacks

Pontiff decried leaders who spend ‘billions on wars’ amid deepening row with US president

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Pope decries a world ‘ravaged by tyrants’

Pope Leo blasted leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world was “being ravaged by a handful of tyrants”, in unusually forceful remarks in Cameroon on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump attacked him again on social media. Leo, the first U.S. pope, also decried leaders who used religious language to justify wars […]

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Pope Leo brings message of unity to Cameroon’s divided Anglophone regions

Pope Leo XIV is travelling to the western Cameroon city of Bamenda to preach a message of peace in the epicenter of a separatist conflict that humanitarian groups have called one of the world’s most neglected crises.

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Pope Leo, in Cameroon, decries world ‘ravaged by tyrants’

'They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education, and restoration are nowhere to be found,' says the Pope

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African Catholics recoil at Trump's spat with Pope Leo

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