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Pope Leo meets Equatorial Guinea’s dictator, urges justice over power

Pope Leo XIV arrived April 21 in Equatorial Guinea, the final country of his 11-day apostolic journey in Africa, where the pope met the country’s longtime ruler and urged the country’s civil authorities to choose justice over power

• Pope’s Corpus Christi Mass in Madrid draws 1.2 million

  

  By COURTNEY MARES, OSV News
  Published June 7, 2026

  More than 1.2 million people filled the streets of Madrid as Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass and led a eucharistic procession through the heart of the Spanish capital June 7 for the solemnity of Corpus Christi, the feast celebrating the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ.

• ‘We can always begin anew’: Pope Leo leads peace meeting in Cameroon’s conflict zone

  

  By COURTNEY MARES, OSV News
  Published April 16, 2026

  Pope Leo led a historic peace meeting on April 16 in Cameroon’s northwest city of Bamenda, a region marred by years of separatist violence. “This is the moment to change, to transform the story of this country,” the pope said.

• Pope Leo praises ceasefire as ‘genuine hope,’ presses for dialogue, peace

  

  By JOSEPHINE PETERSON, Catholic News Service
  Published April 9, 2026

  Pope Leo XIV welcomed the newly announced ceasefire in the Middle East as “a sign of genuine hope” after what he described as “hours of extreme tension,” while urging a return to negotiations and calling the faithful to prayer.