Catholics in Ivory Coast say they're happy with election of new Pope Leo XIV

Bianca Popa

(9 May 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Abidjan, Ivory Coast - 8 May 2025 1. Various of people praying at a mass organized to pray for the ongoing conclave 2. The courtyard of St. John’s Catholic Church in Abidjan 3. Hervé Djezou Konan, priest and the head of communications for the Catholic Church in Ivory Coast, walks in the courtyard of the church 4. SOUNDBITE (French) Hervé Djezou Konan, priest: “We welcome this good news with great joy, great fervor, and we pray to the Lord that