The African Apostolic Journey came to an end

Oudtshoorn, 24 April 2026 – Yesterday, after a ten-day visit to four countries, Pope Leo XIV with his entourage boarded the flight for just over six hours, from Malabo airport to Rome-Fiumicino concluding a long, intense Apostolic journey, from the Augustinian sites in Algeria, with the Christian community that continues to uphold a faith built on service, dialogue, and martyrdom, to Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea. In his farewell, Pope Leo XIV remaked; “I leave Africa with an immeasurable treasure…consisting of stories, faces and testimonies, both joyful and sorrowful, which will greatly enrich my life and ministry as the Successor of Peter.”

Gister, ná ’n tien-dae besoek aan vier lande, het Pous Leo XIV saam met sy gevolg die vlug van net meer as ses uur vanaf Malabo-lughawe na Rome-Fiumicino geneem, wat ’n lang, intense Apostoliese reis afgesluit het — van die Augustynse plekke in Algerië, saam met die Christelike gemeenskap wat steeds ’n geloof handhaaf wat op diens, dialoog en martelaarskap gebou is, tot Kameroen, Angola en Ekwatoriaal-Guinee. In sy afskeid het Pous Leo XIV opgemerk: “Ek verlaat Afrika met ’n onmeetbare skat… bestaande uit verhale, gesigte en getuienisse, beide vreugdevol en smartlik, wat my lewe en bediening as die Opvolger van Petrus grootliks sal verryk.”



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