{"id":251228,"date":"2026-04-16T15:01:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/04\/16\/leo-and-the-tyrants-does-new-popes-defiant-message-resonate\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:01:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:01:48","slug":"leo-and-the-tyrants-does-new-popes-defiant-message-resonate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/04\/16\/leo-and-the-tyrants-does-new-popes-defiant-message-resonate\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo and \u00ab\u00a0the tyrants\u00a0\u00bb: Does new pope&rsquo;s defiant message resonate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A new U-S-born Pope on a first-ever visit to Cameroon\u2019s restive English-speaking northwest, and who\u2019s not turning the other cheek:\u00a0\u201cBlessed are the peacemakers! But woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.\u201d, Pope Leo declared on Thursday in Bamenda. The message was the same when he landed Wednesday in Yaound\u00e9 and while it may sound like a rebuttal to a critical U-S president who\u2019s an ocean away, it&rsquo;s first a pointed message to the leader in the room hosting Leo\u2026 93-year old Paul Biya, only the second head of state Cameroon\u2019s known since independence from France in 1960. \u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new U-S-born Pope on a first-ever visit to Cameroon\u2019s restive English-speaking northwest, and who\u2019s not turning the other cheek:\u00a0\u201cBlessed are the peacemakers! But woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.\u201d, Pope Leo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,3],"class_list":["post-251228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afriqueune","tag-africa","tag-afrique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}