PHOTOS: Pope Leo XIV visits elderly home, says Mass for 60,000 in Angola

A look in photos at Pope Leo XIV's eighth day of his apostolic journey to Africa.

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Christ is not 'a guru or a good luck charm,' pope says at Mass in Angola

After praying at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Saurimo, Pope Leo XIV proceeded to the site of the Mass, attended by an estimated 60,000 people.

Pope Leo visits nursing home in Angola: The elderly 'need to be listened to'

Saurimo, a city in northeastern Angola, is known as the center of diamond mining in the country.