Pope Leo XIV meets with US Vice-President JD Vance. The Holy See Press Office announced that Pope Leo XIV met with the Vice President of the United States of America, James David Vance, on Monday morning. US Second Lady Usha Vance and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio were also present. The US Vice President and Secretary of State represented the United States at the Pope’s Mass of Inauguration of his Petrine Ministry on Sunday morning in St. Peter’s Square. After the private audience with the A

Pope Francis arrived in South Sudan's capital, Juba, Friday as part of his "pilgrimage of peace," which took him first to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Rev. Iain Greenshields, moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, accompanied the pontiff in his travels. As VOA's John Tanza explains to Africa 54 host Esther Githui-Ewart, South Sudanese hope the pope and his counterparts will help jolt a peace process aimed at ending a decade of

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