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Swans sleep outside the gate of the Beguinage Ten Wijngaerde in Bruges, Belgium, Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (Credit: Virginia Mayo/AP.)

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Portuguese Catholic priest, Padre Guilherme performs an open-air DJ set at the Plaza de Mayo, honoring the first year anniversary of Pope Francis' passing in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (Credit: Rodrigo Abd/AP.)

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Pope Leo XIV presides over Sunday Mass, Sunday, April 19, 2026, in Kilamba, some 30 kilometers south of Luanda, Angola, on the seventh day of an 11-day apostolic journey to Africa. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV heads to Catholic shrine in Angola that was a center of African slave trade

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Pope Leo XIV is cheered by faithful on the occasion of his visit to a nursing home, in Saurimo, Angola, Monday, April 20, 2026. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Pope in Saurimo warns God is not a ‘guru’ as locals battle wizardry

Apr 20
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Pope Leo XIV, with the Archbishop of Bamenda, Andrew Nkea Fuanya, left, frees a white dove at the end of a meeting for peace at Saint Joseph’s Cathedral in Bamenda, Cameroon, with the local community Thursday, April 16, 2026, on the fourth day of his 11-day pastoral visit to Africa. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

On Cameroon visit Pope Leo called for peace, but peace with justice

Apr 20
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Portuguese Catholic priest, Padre Guilherme performs an open-air DJ set at the Plaza de Mayo, honoring the first year anniversary of Pope Francis' passing in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (Credit: Rodrigo Abd/AP.)

Padre Guilherme hosts rave in Argentina’s capital honoring late Pope Francis

Apr 20
Débora Rey,
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Pope prays at Catholic shrine in Angola that was a center of African slave trade

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