Pope Comes to Confirm Africa's Faith

(17 March 09-RV) “I come among you as a pastor, I come to confirm my brothers and sisters in the faith. This was the role that Christ entrusted to Peter at the Last Supper, and it is the role of Peter’s successors”. Those were Pope Benedict’s first words to the People of Africa, delivered this afternoon from the international airport of Yaoundé Cameroon, on the first leg of his week long Papal trip to Africa. Travelling with the Pope and joining us live on the line from Yaoundé is Vatican Radio’s Festus Tarawaille...