Pope Leo XIV meets with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune at the Presidential Palace during his Africa tour in Algiers, Algeria on April 13, 2026. [Algerian Presidency - Anadolu Agency]
Open conflict with the President of the United States was not something Pope Leo XIV expected when his Apostolic Journey took him to the largest country in Africa. The leader of some 1.4 billion Roman Catholics was in Algeria last week, following in the footsteps of Saint Augustine, his spiritual mentor, who was born there in the 4th Century AD.  Pope Leo was first received in the capital city of Algiers, at the Martyrs’ Memorial, where he paid tribute to the 1.5 million victims of the country’s eight-year war of independence from France, which ended in 1962. The Pope then visited the Algiers Grand Mosque – the third largest in the world after the ones in Mecca and Medina.   On April 14, there was a papal […]

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