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View of Freetown, Sierra Leone, April 28, 2024. (Credit: Misper Apawu/AP.)

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In this Monday, Sept. 1, 2025, photo provided by the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army, people gather at the site of a landslide from Aug. 31, that wiped out the village of Tarasin in the Marrah Mountains of Central Darfur, Sudan. (Credit: Sudan Liberation Movement/Army via AP.)

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In this Monday, Sept. 1, 2025, photo provided by the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army, people gather at the site of a landslide from Aug. 31, that wiped out the village of Tarasin in the Marrah Mountains of Central Darfur, Sudan. (Credit: Sudan Liberation Movement/Army via AP.)

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The Independence Monument is pictured as Ukrainian flags blow in the wind in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 23, 2025. (Credit: Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP.)

Pope Leo calls for peace in Ukraine during his Angelus address

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Pope Leo XIV waves as he arrives to hold a Pentecost vigil in St. Peter’s Square at The Vatican, Saturday, June 8, 2025. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

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Pope Leo XIV explained that love is “not the result of chance, but of a conscious choice” during his General Audience on Aug. 6, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

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Pope Leo XIV and Jesuit Father James Martin, editor-at-large at America, at the Vatican on Sept. 1, 2025. (Credit: Vatican News.)

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In this Monday, Sept. 1, 2025, photo provided by the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army, people gather at the site of a landslide from Aug. 31, that wiped out the village of Tarasin in the Marrah Mountains of Central Darfur, Sudan. (Credit: Sudan Liberation Movement/Army via AP.)

Pope Leo prays for victims of landslide in Sudan

Sep 3
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Associated Press