Pope Leo XIV Meets With Students, Visits Hospital, Holds Stadium Mass in Cameroon

Pope Leo XIV Meets With Students, Visits Hospital, Holds Stadium Mass in Cameroon

Pope Leo XIV holds a sculpture at Japoma Stadium in Douala, Cameroon, on Friday, April 17, 2026. The Holy Father will stay in Cameroon one more night before traveling to Angola on April 18.

Day 5 In Africa: Pope Leo Says ‘All Of Us’ Must Help Address Global Hunger, Tells Cameroonian Students To Cultivate “Holy Restlessness”

On the fifth day of his Apostolic Journey across Africa, Pope Leo celebrates Mass for 120,000 people in Douala, and tells university students in Yaoundé to cultivate “holy restlessness” On Friday, a day after condemning corruption and calling for peace in the North-western city of Bamenda, Pope Leo addressed another of Cameroon’s pressing problems: hunger. In his homily at Mass in Douala, the country’s economic hub, the Pope said that Jesus enco…