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U.S. President VD Vance meets Pope Francis in the Vatican on April 20, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media/Screenshot.)

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Pope Francis, second from left, looks at traditional dancers performing at the Martyrs’ Stadium In Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Church leaders say Pope Francis had ‘a heart in Africa’

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A woman holds a picture of Pope Francis reading in Italian “Farewell Francis, thank you His Holiness, today all the people cry for you” in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican after Cardinal Camerlengo Kevin Joseph Farrell announced the death of Pope Francis, Monday, April 21, 2025. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

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Pope Francis in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba on Sep. 22, 2015. (Credit: Ramon Espinosa/AP.)

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