00:00Pope Leo XIV heads to the sanctuary of Mama Muxima to celebrate the rosary prayer on his second day in
00:08Angola.
00:09South of Luanda, it is Angola's most popular Catholic shrine today.
00:14Its history is emblematic of the Catholic Church's role in the slave trade,
00:19as well as its forced baptisms of enslaved people
00:23and what some scholars say is the Holy See's continued refusal to fully acknowledge it and atone for it.
00:30Early on Sunday, Pope Leo XIV held a mass before an estimated 100,000 people outside the capital
00:38and again sought to encourage Angolans.
00:41He denounced the exploitation of their mineral-rich lands and people,
00:46who still bear the scars of a brutal post-independence civil war.
00:50He also praised the ceasefire in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah
00:55as a sign of hope that he prayed would bring lasting peace to the Middle East.
01:00Pope Leo's stop in Angola is the third leg of his fourth nation tour,
01:05which includes Algeria, Angola and Cameroon.
01:08His last stop will be Equatorial Guinea.
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