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Pope Leo XIV begins an 11-day, four-nation apostolic journey to Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea on April 13, 2026 — the longest papal trip of his pontificate and the first-ever papal visit to Algeria. The trip arrives as Africa's 288 million Catholics have surpassed Europe's share of global Catholicism for the first time, raising hard questions about whether the Vatican is prepared to share institutional power with a continent that is now the church's demographic center of gravity.