(Nicole Winfield, Jean-Yves Kamale and Christina Malkia - AP) Pope Francis
demanded Tuesday that foreign powers stop plundering Africa’s natural
resources for the “poison of their own greed” as he arrived in Congo to a
raucous welcome by Congolese grateful he was focusing the world’s
attention on their forgotten plight. Tens
of thousands of people lined the main road into the capital, Kinshasa,
to welcome Francis after he landed at the airport, some standing three
or four deep, with children in school uniforms taking the front row. “The
pope is 86 years old but he came anyway. (...)
