Pope: “World full of problems, but peace can be achieved”

Annaba (Algeria), Apr 14 (LaPresse) – Despite the world being full of “problems, pitfalls and tribulations,” “our history can change” and it is possible to build “a future of justice and peace, of harmony and salvation,” said Pope Leo XIV during his homily at Mass held at the Basilica of Saint Augustine in Annaba, Algeria. “The Church is always being born, because where there is despair it lights hope, where there is misery it brings dignity, where there is conflict it brings reconciliation,” the Holy Father added, addressing the bishops: “The first duty of pastors, ministers of the Gospel, is to bear witness to God in the world with one heart and one soul, without allowing worries to corrupt us with fear or trends to weaken us with compromise. Together with you, brothers in the episcopate, and with you, priests, we constantly renew this mission for the good of those entrusted to us, so that the whole Church may be, in its service, a message of new life for those we encounter.”