BAMENDA, Cameroon, April 16 (Reuters) - Pope Leo blasted leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world was "being ravaged by a handful of tyrants", in unusually forceful remarks in Cameroon on
Pope Leo in Cameroon Slams World Leaders and Urges Decisive Change
Pope Leo's Forceful Remarks in Cameroon
Criticism of Global Leadership and War Spending
BAMENDA, Cameroon, April 16 (Reuters) - Pope Leo blasted leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world was "being ravaged by a handful of tyrants", in unusually forceful remarks in Cameroon on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump attacked him again on social media.
Condemnation of Religious Justifications for War
Leo, the first U.S. pope, also decried leaders who used religious language to justify wars and urged a "decisive change of course" in a meeting in the biggest city in Cameroon's English-speaking regions, where a simmering conflict going back nearly a decade has left thousands dead.
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