The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, Leo XIV said on Thursday in Bamenda, a city in western Cameroon that has long been plagued by a violent separatist war.
The American Pope repeated the message of peace he trumpeted regarding the war in Iran and the Trump administration's religious justification for the bombings.
Woe to those who manipulate religion and the name of God for their own military, economic and political gain and drag what is holy into darkness and impurity, Leo said.
In recent days, Donald Trump has received harsh criticism for his verbal attacks on the Pope, as well as for an AI image of himself as Jesus that he shared on social media.
