{"id":82204,"date":"2026-04-18T08:04:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82204"},"modified":"2026-04-18T08:04:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:04:49","slug":"pope-wraps-up-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/pope-wraps-up-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Wraps Up Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/1736f37\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/7695x5130+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F25%2Ffc%2F08449fbaba90a98cc9ae9a6e571c%2F0ab9bcb2a6534c3abae8cfe0cfdcd189\" alt=\"Pope Leo XIV arrives in procession to celebrate Mass at Yaounde Ville Airport, Cameroon, Saturday, April 18, 2026 on the sixth day of his 11-day pastoral visit to Africa. (AP Photo\/Andrew Medichini)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">Pope Leo XIV<\/span>\u00a0called Saturday for \u201cstructures of solidarity\u201d to help those on the margins as he wrapped up his visit to Cameroon and headed to Angola on the third leg of his\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">four-nation African odyssey.\u00a0<\/span>Leo celebrated Mass at Yaounde Airport before an estimated 200,000 people, including President Paul Biya, 93, the world\u2019s oldest leader. The jostling, joyful atmosphere underscored the joy the third pope to visit Cameroon has brought the former French colony, where around a third of the population is Catholic.<\/p>\n<p>Some people who struggled to walk were brought to the Mass in wheelbarrows pushed by family members.\u00a0In his visit to Cameroon, Leo sought to encourage\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">young people<\/span>\u00a0to have hope despite senses of disillusionment. He also demanded elites stop exploiting the land and its people for profit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1776499489\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Pope Wraps Up Trip\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Pope Leo XIV\u00a0called Saturday for \u201cstructures of solidarity\u201d to help those on the margins as he wrapped up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82205,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82204\/revisions\/82205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}