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Pope Leo XIV called on Sunday for Angolans to fight corruption and build hope for the future as he celebrated Mass before an estimated 100,000 people outside the capital. He used the service to encourage the crowd while continuing his African tour, which has placed a strong focus on poverty, justice and the use of natural wealth.
In his homily in Kilamba, a Chinese-built development about 25 kilometres outside Luanda, the pope said Angola was a beautiful but wounded country that still hungered for hope, peace and brotherhood. He also denounced the exploitation of the country’s mineral-rich land and people, who continue to bear the scars of the civil war that followed independence.
Leo had already urged Angolans to break with corruption and colonial-era patterns of extraction when he met authorities on Saturday. On his X account, he later said the world needs to look to the future with hope and “build the hope of the future,” adding that believers should not be afraid to become “protagonists of a new humanity and a new society.”
The pope’s visit comes as Angola, a former Portuguese colony rich in oil and minerals, remains burdened by inequality and the legacy of conflict. Later on Sunday, Leo was due to pray the Rosary at the Sanctuary of Mama Muxima, an important Catholic shrine on the banks of the Kwanza River about 110 kilometres south of Luanda.
