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Pope making first papal visit to Algeria to launch Africa trip and honor locally born St. Augustine
VATICAN CITY (Rewritten Report) — History is being made this week as Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pontiff in Catholic history, touches down in Algeria on Monday for the first-ever papal visit to the North African nation. The two-day stop kicks off an ambitious 11-day, four-country tour across Africa — a region increasingly recognized as the dynamic growing heart of the global Catholic Church — that will also take him to Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea.
Upon arrival at Algiers’ international airport, Pope Leo was scheduled to be welcomed by Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, followed by an official meeting at the El Mouradia presidential palace. The first day of the itinerary includes an address to national authorities, a visit to Algiers’ iconic Great Mosque, an interfaith gathering at the landmark Our Lady of Africa basilica, and a solemn prayer vigil at a nearby monument honoring migrants who lost their lives in shipwrecks while attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.
The 19th-century Roman-Byzantine basilica, constructed during France’s colonial rule of Algeria, will host a unique interfaith gathering bringing together a Catholic nun, a Pentecostal worshiper, and a Muslim representative to share testimonies ahead of the pope’s remarks. The trip’s official motto, drawn from Pope Leo’s standard opening greeting for all his public engagements, is “Peace be with you,” and Vatican officials have confirmed that advancing interfaith harmony between Christians and Muslims and a global message of peace will serve as the visit’s core themes, particularly amid rising religious and geopolitical conflict around the world.
Vatican statistics show Algeria is home to a tiny Catholic community of roughly 9,000 people, most of whom are foreign residents, living alongside a majority Sunni Muslim population of nearly 47 million. Remarkably, Algiers Archbishop Jean-Paul Vesco, a French cardinal, noted that nine out of 10 daily visitors to the Our Lady of Africa basilica are Muslim, a quiet demonstration of everyday coexistence in the country. “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 the pope’s arrival. “And that is what our church has been doing since this country gained independence.”
Despite this grassroots harmony, the visit takes place against a backdrop of ongoing international scrutiny of religious freedom in Algeria. The U.S. government has included Algeria on its special watch list for severe religious freedom violations, noting that while the country’s constitution recognizes faiths other than Islam and permits private worship that adheres to public order regulations, proselytizing to Muslims by non-Muslims is a criminal offense, and multiple independent Christian denominations have faced government pressure including forced church closures. Some Algerian citizens have raised questions about the long-term impact of the papal visit on religious minorities: “I imagine it’s a good thing that a pope is visiting Algeria,” said Selma Dénane, a student in the coastal city of Annaba. “But what will it change afterward? Will Christians be able to say, ‘I am a Christian’ without fear or stigmatization?’”
The trip also includes a powerful tribute to religious martyrs of Algeria’s brutal modern history. Three decades after winning independence from France, the country descended into a 1990s civil war known locally as the “black decade,” which killed an estimated 250,000 people as government forces battled an Islamist insurgency. Nineteen Catholics were among those killed, including seven Trappist monks from the Tibhirine monastery south of Algiers, who were kidnapped and murdered in 1996, as well as two nuns from Pope Leo’s own Augustinian religious order. On Monday, the pope will pay homage to the 19 martyrs, all of whom were beatified in 2018 in the first such ceremony ever held in the Muslim world. He will also meet with remaining Augustinian nuns who operate an interfaith social services program out of the Algiers basilica that supports people of all religious backgrounds.
Archbishop Vesco pointed out a striking coincidence: Pope Leo was elected to the papacy on May 8, which is the Catholic feast day of these 19 Algerian martyrs. Vesco extended an invitation to visit immediately after Leo’s election, and the pope has long drawn inspiration from the community: he has adopted a phrase from Christian de Chergé, the martyred prior of the Tibhirine monastery, as a personal mantra — speaking of “unarmed and disarming peace” — and has cited the line repeatedly since the night of his election. “Obviously he will speak a lot about peace, it’s urgent and current,” Vesco said.
Beyond its interfaith and pastoral goals, the Algeria visit is a deeply personal pilgrimage for Pope Leo, a lifelong member of the Augustinian order. The order draws its founding inspiration from St. Augustine of Hippo, the 5th-century theological and philosophical giant of the early Christian church, who was born in what is now Algeria and spent nearly all his life in the region. On Tuesday, the pope will travel to Annaba, the modern city built on the site of ancient Hippo where St. Augustine served as bishop for 30 years, to walk in the saint’s footsteps.
From his first public address after his election, Pope Leo has introduced himself as a “son of St. Augustine,” and has referenced the early church father repeatedly in speeches, homilies, and official documents over his first year in office. Paul Camacho, associate director of the Augustinian Institute at Villanova University — Pope Leo’s Augustinian-run alma mater near Philadelphia — noted that references to St. Augustine are a consistent throughline in the pope’s teaching. “I don’t know if I have seen a statement, a homily, an apostolic letter or exhortation that doesn’t reference Augustine,” Camacho said. “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.”
This reporting was compiled from original on-the-ground contributions by Ouali and Santalucia in Algiers, Algeria.
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Longtime AP reporter and editor Bill Mann dies at 83
RESTON, Va. – Bill Mann, a journalist whose nearly 50-year career with The Associated Press took him across six continents to cover some of the world’s most high-profile and turbulent beats, passed away Thursday at a memory care facility in Reston, Virginia. He was 83 years old.
A native of Georgia and graduate of the University of Georgia’s journalism program, where he met his wife Mimi of more than 60 years, Mann’s path to global reporting began with military service. After graduating college, he attended officer candidate school, commissioned as a U.S. Navy officer, and served four years of active duty at a Philippine base and the Pentagon. Following his discharge from the Navy, he launched his AP career in 1960 at the agency’s Louisville, Kentucky bureau, later moving to the New York headquarters and other domestic postings before accepting a 10-year appointment as AP’s Cairo bureau chief.
Over his decades-long tenure, Mann built a reputation for sharp, meticulous reporting from some of the world’s most volatile regions, including the Philippines under authoritarian President Ferdinand Marcos, post-colonial India, Scandinavia, Washington D.C., and the Middle East. Even as a veteran correspondent who had covered conflict and crisis for decades, an early 1990s reporting trip to famine- and war-ravaged Somalia left such a deep emotional mark that Mann never spoke publicly about what he witnessed during the assignment, his daughter Samantha Rudolph recalled.
Among the hundreds of prominent figures Mann interviewed over his career – including dozens of heads of state and global leaders – he often cited his 1960s encounter with a young Cassius Clay, the amateur boxer who would go on to become global heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, as his absolute favorite and most memorable conversation. Outside of journalism and his family, Mann’s greatest passion was his alma mater’s athletics program; he was a lifelong, diehard fan of the Georgia Bulldogs, according to his family.
Mann was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2010, and ultimately died from an unspecified virus while receiving care at the memory care facility, his wife confirmed. Even as his condition progressed, he never lost his lifelong love for the craft of journalism, Mimi Mann said.
Colleagues and loved ones remembered Mann as a consummate newsroom professional whose commitment to precision and detail made his work a benchmark for AP reporting, while his gentle, generous nature set him apart as a mentor and leader. “Billy Mann was a wonderful representative for The Associated Press in global hot spots from the Philippines under President Ferdinand Marcos to the turbulent Middle East,” said Edith M. Lederer, longtime AP United Nations bureau chief. “He was well-liked for his warm personality and admired for his deft reporting.”
Former AP editor Ken Guggenheim echoed that sentiment, noting that Mann’s legacy extended beyond his reporting to the example he set for younger journalists. “Billy was just the consummate AP man. He was just a stickler for details, determined that the grammar was right, the style was right and that the story would be perfect when it would hit the wire,” Guggenheim said. “Everyone loved Billy. He was someone who showed you could be a great journalist and a great person at the same time.”
Mann is survived by his wife of 61 years, Mimi, his daughter Samantha, his son, and four grandchildren.
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Pope Leo XIV carries cross for full Good Friday procession, the first pontiff to do so in decades
ROME – In a striking break from recent papal practice that revives a tradition not seen in nearly 30 years, Pope Leo XIV personally carried a wooden cross through all 14 stations of the iconic Good Friday Way of the Cross procession at Rome’s Colosseum, marking a meaningful milestone during his first Holy Week as head of the Roman Catholic Church.
Speaking to reporters earlier this week outside the papal retreat of Castel Gandolfo, the new pontiff framed the act as more than a ceremonial gesture. He emphasized that the cross-bearing carries a profound spiritual message for the modern world: “I think it will be an important sign because of what the pope represents, a spiritual leader in the world today, and for this voice, that everyone wants to hear, that says Christ still suffers,” he said. “I carry all of this suffering in my prayer.”
Flanked by two torchbearers who stayed at his side for the full hour-long journey, Pope Leo lifted the cross to launch the rite inside the ancient Colosseum. The procession wound through thousands of gathered faithful outside the monument, climbed the steep slopes of Palatine Hill, and concluded with the pontiff delivering the final blessing at the traditional end point.
The meditations for each station, crafted specifically for Pope Leo’s inaugural Good Friday by Rev. Francesco Patton, who served as Custodian of the Holy Land from 2016 to 2025 overseeing Christian sacred sites, carried a sharp focus on the moral weight of power. At the opening station, which commemorates Jesus’ condemnation to death, the meditation highlighted that all holders of authority will ultimately answer to God for how they exercise their influence. “The power to judge; the power to start or end a war; the power to instill violence or peace; the power to fuel the desire for revenge, or for reconciliation,” the text read.
Roughly 30,000 pilgrims and faithful from around the world gathered for the event, joining the recitation of the stations broadcast over loudspeakers. Among them was Sister Pelenatita Kieoma Finau, a member of the Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary from Samoa, who described the experience as unparalleled. “We have been part of our parish stations of the cross, but this is so exciting,” she said. “It is very meaningful to have the experience of being with the people of Rome on this special occasion.”
To understand the significance of Pope Leo’s choice, it is necessary to look back at recent papal tradition. John Paul II carried the cross for the entire procession from his first Good Friday as pontiff in 1979 until he underwent hip surgery in 1995, after which he only bore the cross for part of the route. During his first two years as pope, Benedict XVI carried the cross only for the opening station inside the Colosseum before following other cross-bearers for the remainder of the procession to Palatine Hill. Pope Francis never personally carried the cross, participating in the procession only until his declining health forced him to step back; he died last year on Easter Monday, April 21, after a long period of illness.
Age and physical health have long shaped popes’ participation in the procession. John Paul II was just 58 when he assumed the papacy and was famously an avid hiker and outdoor enthusiast. His two immediate successors were both in their late 70s when they began their papacies, and Francis lived with partial lung loss from a youth pulmonary infection. At 70, Pope Leo is in excellent physical condition: he is an enthusiastic tennis player and regular swimmer, and his former trainer has confirmed that before his election, he worked out consistently at a gym near the Vatican following a fitness routine typical of a man decades younger.
In his introduction to the procession’s meditations, Patton outlined the core purpose of the centuries-old ritual, which commemorates the final hours of Jesus’ life, from his death sentence to crucifixion, death and burial. “The Way of the Cross is not intended for those who lead a pristinely pious or abstractly recollected life,” Patton wrote. “Instead, it is the exercise of one who knows that faith, hope and charity must be incarnated in the real world.”
The Good Friday procession kicks off a full schedule of Holy Week observances for the new pontiff. On Holy Saturday, he will preside over the overnight Easter Vigil, where he will baptize new converts to Catholicism and lead the Church into Christianity’s most sacred celebration of Jesus’ resurrection. On Easter Sunday, he will celebrate an open-air Mass in St. Peter’s Square, deliver his first official Easter message as pope, and bestow the traditional “Urbi et Orbi” blessing to the city of Rome and the entire world.
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