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'You are not alone': Pope hits out at jails in closed-off Equatorial Guinea

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'You are not alone': Pope hits out at jails in closed-off Equatorial Guinea
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Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday made a tightly controlled visit to a notorious prison in Equatorial Guinea's biggest city, after launching a rare criticism of living conditions for inmates. Prisoners lined up in the freshly repainted courtyard of Bata prison, breaking into song and dance in the driving rain as they greeted the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.

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