On the ground: Pope Leo arrives in Algiers to start Africa tour • FRANCE 24 English

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Pope Leo XIV embarked 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.

Leo’s two-day stop in Algeria opens an intense 11-day tour of four African nations — Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea — that will bring history’s first US-born pope deep into the growing heart of the Catholic Church.

FRANCE 24's Claire Paccalin reports from Algiers, Algeria.
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