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Pope Leo XIV in Africa — Algeria welcomes a pope for the first time
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After concluding the first leg of his African apostolic journey in Algeria, Pope Leo XIV travels on Wednesday to Cameroon.
The Algerian government has "shut down, over the course of the last nine to 10 years, almost 50 churches across the country," Kelsey Zorzi said.
The pope shared lunch with the local Augustinian community after visiting Hippo's ruins and a home run by the Little Sisters of the Poor.

