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Did Pope Leo find his voice in Africa? Or did the world finally hear him?
11+ hour, 12+ min ago (1053+ words) LUANDA, Angola " And in Africa, the lion roared. There is a case to be made that Pope Leo XIV, the careful, reserved, Midwestern Augustinian, found his voice on his epic trip through Africa, blasting the "handful of tyrants" and "chains…...
Pope prays at Catholic shrine in Angola that was a center of African slave trade
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (1062+ words) MUXIMA, Angola " Pope Leo XIV on Sunday recalled the "sorrow and great suffering" Angolans endured for centuries, as the American pope prayed at a Catholic shrine located at the site of an important hub of the African slave trade during…...
UK puts Chagos Islands handover deal on hold after Trump withdraws support
1+ week, 2+ day ago (647+ words) LONDON " Britain's agreement to hand Mauritius the Chagos Islands that are home to a strategic U. K. -American military base is on indefinite hold because U. S. President Donald Trump's administration has withdrawn its support for the deal. The British government acknowledged Saturday that…...
Pope's Africa trip takes him to a source of growth for the church, and critical challenges
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1001+ words) VATICAN CITY " When Pope Leo XIV pronounced himself a "son of St. Augustine" the night of his election, some Algerians took that to mean his ancestors hailed from the North African country where the 5th century saint lived and died. Leo's…...
A country-by-country glance at Pope Leo XIV's trip to Africa
1+ week, 3+ day ago (919+ words) Pope Leo XIV's four-nation, 11-day trip to Africa is so dizzying in its complexity it recalls some of the globetrotting odysseys of St. John Paul II in his early years. Themes Leo is expected to raise include Christian-Muslim coexistence, the…...
South Africa arrests 12 senior police officers on suspicion of corruption
3+ week, 5+ day ago (255+ words) JOHANNESBURG " South African anti-graft investigators have arrested 12 senior police officers on allegations of corruption and fraud, prosecutors said Wednesday. The officers appeared later in a court in the capital, Pretoria. The arrests come while an inquiry continues into allegations of…...
South Africa deploys soldiers to the streets to tackle organized and violent crime
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (551+ words) JOHANNESBURG " Soldiers were deployed to the streets of South Africa's biggest city Wednesday in an effort to help police fight gang violence and illegal mining. It was the first major deployment since President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his annual speech…...
Eswatini receives third batch of migrants deported by the US
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (346+ words) Johannesburg " Four more African migrants deported from the United States arrived in Eswatini, authorities said Thursday. This is the third batch of deportees that the Trump administration has sent to Eswatini. They are the latest of more than 40 deportees sent…...
23 dead, flights disrupted and military deployed after heavy rains pound Kenya's capital overnight
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (362+ words) NAIROBI, Kenya " Twenty-three people died, flights were disrupted and the military was deployed as motorists in the Kenyan capital were stranded for hours on Saturday after roads were flooded following heavy rains overnight. George Seda, the police boss in Nairobi,…...
Man killed in Marysville school bus crash, community rallies to send his body to Africa for burial
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (389+ words) A 29-year-old man died after being hit by a Marysville school bus on I-5 last week, leading to a community-wide effort to return his remains to home country of Senegal for burial. The Washington State Patrol reported that Abdou Ndaw's car…...