By Alexander Mackey Okori The visit comes ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s planned first apostolic journey to Africa in April 2026, visiting Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea, underscoring the Vatican’s focus on the continent’s rapidly growing Catholic communities. Ugandan Catholic Bishops…
The Papal nuncio to Uganda, Archbishop Luigi Bianco (L)
VATICAN: The newly elected pontiff Leo XIV has called on the Catholic Church to “desperately” counter a lack of faith in his first mass at the Vatican while congratulatory messages poured in for making history as the first American-born pontiff. The 69-year-old former Prevost was…
By Alexander Okori and Edward Eninu The election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, has enlisted a sequence of rejoinders across the world, including in Kenya and Tanzania, with many recalling events of his recent visits. Moments…
VATICAN: Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States has been selected as the next pope, the first American pontiff in history and he will be called Pope Leo XIV. There were 133 voting cardinals and any one of them needed two-thirds of the vote…