{"id":446508,"date":"2026-04-21T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/446508\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:50:08","slug":"pope-leo-concludes-visit-to-angola-flies-to-equatorial-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/446508\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo concludes visit to Angola, flies to Equatorial Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV boards the papal plane at the end of his Apostolic Journey to Angola and flies to Equatorial Guinea, which is the final leg of his 11-day visit to four African nations.<\/p>\n<p><b>Vatican News<\/b><\/p>\n<p>On his last morning in Angola, Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass in private at the Apostolic Nunciature in Luanda.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/content\/dam\/vaticannews\/agenzie\/images\/srv\/2026\/04\/21\/2026-04-21-viaggio-apostolico-in-angola---santa-messa-in-nunziat\/1776757576803.JPG\/_jcr_content\/renditions\/cq5dam.thumbnail.cropped.750.422.jpeg\" alt=\"Pope Leo celebrates Mass at the Apostolic Nunciature\" title=\"Pope Leo celebrates Mass at the Apostolic Nunciature\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n   Pope Leo celebrates Mass at the Apostolic Nunciature \u00a0 (@Vatican Media)\n  <\/p>\n<p>He then headed to the airport where he bid farewell to Angolan President Jo\u00e3o Manuel Gon\u00e7alves Louren\u00e7o.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope then boarded the papal plane, which took off at 9:19 AM local time, concluding his Apostolic Journey to Angola.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo spent three days in the central African nation, during which he visited three cities: Luanda, Muxima, and Saurimo.<\/p>\n<p>The final leg of his 11-day visit takes him to Equatorial Guinea until Thursday, April 23.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/content\/dam\/vaticannews\/agenzie\/images\/srv\/2026\/04\/21\/2026-04-21-viaggio-apostolico-in-angola---cerimonia-di-congedo-d\/1776759066065.JPG\/_jcr_content\/renditions\/cq5dam.thumbnail.cropped.750.422.jpeg\" alt=\"Pope Leo walks to the papal plane with President Louren\u00e7o\" title=\"Pope Leo walks to the papal plane with President Louren\u00e7o\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n   Pope Leo walks to the papal plane with President Louren\u00e7o \u00a0 (@Vatican Media)\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n   Departure ceremony at Luanda Airport\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV boards the papal plane at the end of his Apostolic Journey to Angola and flies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[38857,197163,9,10,44656,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,2515,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-446508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-angola","9":"tag-apostolic-journey","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-breakingnews","12":"tag-equatorial-guinea","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-pope-leo-xiv","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories","24":"tag-world","25":"tag-world-news","26":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116443023121528559","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}