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Published on 2025-05-02 15:00:00
Now predominantly muslim, North Africa was once a Christian heartland, producing Catholic popes who left their mark on the church to this day.
Their papacies were in the era of the Roman empire, which stretched across modern-day Tunisia, the north-east of Algeria and the coast of western Libya.
“North Africa was the Bible Belt of ancient Christianity,” says Christopher Bellitto, a historian at Kean University in the United States.
Many Catholics in Africa are hoping that the…
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