Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday visited a remote prison in an often overlooked Central African nation known for human rights abuses, urging the inmates to use the privation of their conditions as an opportunity for personal growth. On a muggy afternoon in the simmering heat of Equatorial Guinea, the pope stepped inside the barbed-wire topped…
Equatorial Guinea’s prison conditions face scrutiny as Pope Leo pushes for humane treatment and reform during his visit. Published On 22 Apr 202622 Apr 2026 Pope Leo has visited one of Equatorial Guinea’s most notorious prisons, criticising conditions for inmates as his four-nation Africa tour headed towards a close. The head of the Catholic Church…
From the point of view of pastoral efficiency, some of the nations that Pope Leo XIV has visited on his African tour this month make a lot of sense. Cameroon and Angola, for example, are each home to millions of Catholics. But in other African nations that fuel Catholicism’s global growth — nations not on…
