ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Pope Leo XIV commenced his inaugural papal visit to Algeria on Monday, focusing on fostering Christian-Muslim harmony amid global tensions and paying tribute to St. Augustine, ...

For Leo, the visit to Algeria is pastoral but also deeply personal. His Augustinian religious order was inspired by the teachings of St. Augustine of Hippo, the 5th century theological and ...

Though no official date has been made public by the Holy See, Pope Leo XIV has expressed his desire to visit Algeria this year, a trip that would make him the first pontiff to travel to the north ...

French Interior Minister Likely to Visit Algeria as Relations Thaw By Alessandro Parodi (Reuters) -French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on Thursday there was a high chance he would visit ...

Pope Leo XIV's visit to overwhelmingly Muslim-majority Algeria cast a spotlight on what he described as the "small, but very significant Catholic church" in the country, offering a lesson for a global ...

MINSK, 2 December (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has arrived in the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria on an official visit. It is the first top-level visit in the history of ...

“Personally, I hope to go to Algeria to visit the places of St. Augustine’s life,” the pope said in December, referring to the fourth-century church father who was bishop of Hippo, in modern-day ...