India, April 24 -- Pope Leo XIV wrapped up his African odyssey on Thursday with a final Mass in Equatorial Guinea, bringing to an end one of the newsiest papal trips in the history of popes on the road, thanks to his extraordinary back-and-forth with President Donald Trump.

A powerful rainstorm drenched the Malabo sports stadium and the estimated 30,000 people who gathered before dawn for Leo's farewell liturgy. But the deluge let up before Leo arrived in his covered popemobile for a romp through the deafening crowd. Leo was leaving after an 11-day, four-nation voyage that took him from Algeria in the north of Africa to Angola in the south and Cameroon in between. Over that time, Leo covered more than 17,700 km on 18 flights, including t...