Pope Leo XIV is embarking Monday on the first-ever papal trip to Algeria. He aims to promote Christian-Muslim coexistence at a time of global conflict. He also will honor the locally born inspiration of his religious spirituality, St. Augustine.
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How to stay safe and healthy while enjoying the showFrom 'BuddhaBot' to $1.99 chats with AI Jesus, the faith-based tech boom is hereZelenskyy afirma que Ucrania derribó drones Shahed en países de Oriente Medio durante guerra de IránPope Leo XIV is embarking on the first-ever papal trip to Algeria on Monday, aiming to promote Christian-Muslim coexistence at a time of global conflict and honor the Algerian-born inspiration of his religious spirituality, St. Augustine. Pope Leo XIV delivers the Regina Coeli prayer in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 12, 2026. A banner showing a photo of Pope Leo XIV and Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in Annaba, eastern Algeria, Saturday, April 11, 2026, ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit. The banner in Arabic reads, “Let’s live in peace and harmony.” People sit outside the Church of Notre Dame d’Afrique, ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit, in Algiers, Algeria, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. A view of the church of Notre Dame d’Afrique, ahead of a Pope Leo XIV visit, in Algiers, Algeria, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. A man sits inside the Basilica of Saint Augustine in Annaba, eastern Algeria, Saturday, April 11, 2026, ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit. Pope Leo XIV is embarking on the first-ever papal trip to Algeria on Monday, aiming to promote Christian-Muslim coexistence at a time of global conflict and honor the Algerian-born inspiration of his religious spirituality, St. Augustine. Pope Leo XIV delivers the Regina Coeli prayer in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 12, 2026. Pope Leo XIV delivers the Regina Coeli prayer in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 12, 2026. A banner showing a photo of Pope Leo XIV and Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in Annaba, eastern Algeria, Saturday, April 11, 2026, ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit. The banner in Arabic reads, “Let’s live in peace and harmony.” A banner showing a photo of Pope Leo XIV and Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in Annaba, eastern Algeria, Saturday, April 11, 2026, ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit. The banner in Arabic reads, “Let’s live in peace and harmony.” People sit outside the Church of Notre Dame d’Afrique, ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit, in Algiers, Algeria, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. People sit outside the Church of Notre Dame d’Afrique, ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit, in Algiers, Algeria, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. A view of the church of Notre Dame d’Afrique, ahead of a Pope Leo XIV visit, in Algiers, Algeria, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. A view of the church of Notre Dame d’Afrique, ahead of a Pope Leo XIV visit, in Algiers, Algeria, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. A man sits inside the Basilica of Saint Augustine in Annaba, eastern Algeria, Saturday, April 11, 2026, ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit. A man sits inside the Basilica of Saint Augustine in Annaba, eastern Algeria, Saturday, April 11, 2026, ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit. is embarking Monday on the first-ever papal trip to Algeria, aiming to promote Christian-Muslim coexistence at a time of global conflict and honor the locally born inspiration of his religious spirituality, St. Augustine.of four African nations — Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea — that will bring history’s first U.S.-born pope deep into theAlgerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune was set to greet Leo upon his arrival at Algiers’ international airport before they meet formally at the El Mouradia presidential palace. Later Monday, Leo was to address Algerian authorities and visit the city’s Great Mosque. He was finishing the day with a gathering at the Our Lady of Africa basilica, and then prayers at a nearby monument for migrants killed in shipwrecks trying to reach Europe. The gathering at the basilica, a Roman-Byzantine structure built in the late 1800s during France’s colonial rule, will feature testimony from a Catholic nun, a Pentecostal believer and Muslim, as well as remarks by the pope. The official motto of the Algeria trip is Leo’s opening line wherever he goes — “Peace be with you” — and the Vatican says a general message of peace and Christian-Muslim coexistence will be the major theme. In Algeria, a tiny Catholic community of around 9,000 people made up mostly of foreigners exists alongside the Sunni Muslim majority of about 47 million, according to Vatican statistics.The archbishop of Algiers, French Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco, said on any given day, nine out of 10 people who visit the basilica are Muslim. “It’s wonderful to be able to show that we can be brothers and sisters together, building a society despite our different religions,” Vesco told The Associated Press on the eve of Leo’s arrival. “And that is what our church has been doing since this country gained independence.” The United States, though, has placed Algeria on its special watch list for “having engaged in or tolerated severe violations of religious freedom.” The Algerian constitution recognizes “religions other than Islam” and allows individuals to practice their faith if they respect public order and rules. But proselytizing to Muslims by non-Muslims is a crime, and some other Christian denominations have faced persecution from Algerian authorities, who have closed their churches. “I imagine it’s a good thing that a pope is visiting Algeria,” said Selma Dénane, a student who lives in Annaba down the coast from Algiers. “But what will it change afterward? Will Christians be able to say, ‘I am a Christian’ without fear or stigmatization?’”, Algeria fought a brutal civil war in the 1990s that is known locally as the “black decade,” when some 250,000 people were killed as the army fought an Islamist insurgency.who were kidnapped and killed in 1996 by Islamic fighters. Also among the 19 were two nuns from Leo’s Augustinian religious family. On his first day in Algeria, Leo will pay homage to the 19 martyrs and visit the remaining Augustinian nuns who run a social services project out of the Algiers basilica that helps people of all faiths. “They gave their lives for God, for Jesus, for the church, for the Algerian people because they didn’t want to leave the country, even in the difficult moments,” said Sister Lourdes Miguelez. All 19 were beatified in 2018 as martyrs for the faith in what was then the first such beatification ceremony in the Muslim world.Leo has another connection to the Trappist monks: He has made a mantra out of one of the sayings of the martyred prior of the Tibherine monastery, Christian de Chergé, who spoke of an “unarmed and disarming peace.” Leo has cited the line starting from the night of his election.For Leo, the visit to Algeria is pastoral but also deeply personal. His Augustinian religious order was inspired by the teachings of, the 5th century theological and philosophical titan of the early Christian church who was born in what is today Algeria and spent all but five years of his life there. On Tuesday, Leo will visit Annaba, the modern-day Hippo where St. Augustine was bishop for three decades, and will literally walk in the footsteps of the saint. From his first public words as pope, Leo proclaimed himself a “son of St. Augustine,” and he has made that clear in his first year, repeatedly citing the church father in his speeches and homilies. “I don’t know if I have seen a statement, a homily, an apostolic letter or exhortation that doesn’t reference Augustine,” said Paul Camacho, associate director of the Augustinian Institute at Villanova University, Leo’s Augustinian-run alma mater outside Philadelphia. “The shadow that he casts on Western thought, not just the Roman Catholic Church but on Western thought more broadly, is very, very long indeed,” he said.Winfield has been on the Vatican beat since 2001, covering the papacies of St. John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI and the Francis pontificate and traveling the world with them.Santalucia covers events throughout Southern Europe, Italy, the Mediterranean sea and the Vatican for The Associated Press based in Rome.
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