VATICAN CITY — This week, Pope Leo XIV will stroll within the footsteps of his icon, Saint Augustine of Hippo, a towering theologian whose delivery in what’s now Algeria makes him historical past’s most revered African Catholic. In strife-ridden Cameroon and authoritarian Equatorial Guinea, Leo will flex his powers as peacemaker and diplomat. In oil-rich Angola, he’ll confront a microcosm of the worldwide tussle between Catholicism and evangelical faiths.
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