内容摘要：Associated Press writers Seung Min Kim and Michelle L. Price in Washington contributed reporting.

Associated Press writers Seung Min Kim and Michelle L. Price in Washington contributed reporting.

The real-life situation was reflected in the fictionalin which one of the four contenders vying for the papacy was a socially conservative cardinal from Nigeria.

Congo has the highest number of baptized Catholics in Africa.Ambongo — the archbishop of Congolese capital, Kinshasa, since 2018 — last year signed arejecting a Vatican declaration to allow priests to offer spontaneous, non-liturgical blessings to same-sex couples seeking God’s grace.

That statement, seen as a rebuke of Francis, asserted that same-sex unions were “contrary to the will of God.” It cited biblical teaching condemning homosexuality and asserted that same-sex relations are “contradictory to cultural norms” in Africa.But it is Sarah, the Guinean cardinal who is the Vatican’s former liturgy chief, who posed a more public challenge to Francis.

A favorite of traditionalists, Sarah prefers silent prayer and is an adherent of the old Latin Mass. He is a staunch defender of longstanding doctrinal faith.

After Francis in 2021 reimposed restrictions on celebrating the Latin Mass that Benedict had relaxed, Sarah responded with tweets quoting Benedict’s original 2007 law to relax the restrictions. His posts were accompanied by a photo of Benedict wearing the red cape that Francis had eschewed the night of his election.She said she pleaded to return to her 21-month-old son, but soldiers didn’t listen.

“I was most afraid that they would kill me,” she said. “And that I wouldn’t see my son again.”Magdy reported from Cairo.

NUSEIRAT, Franja de Gaza (AP) — El caos estalló nuevamente el jueves en la Franja de Gaza cuando decenas de miles de palestinos desesperados intentaron recoger alimentos de sitios de distribución administrados por una fundación respaldada por Estados Unidos e Israel. Múltiples testigos informaron de un descontrol de personas tomando ayuda, y dijeron que las tropas israelíes dispararon para controlar a las multitudes.En el centro de Gaza, un video de The Associated Press mostraba bombas de humo surcando el aire alrededor de un centro de distribución, y se escucharon disparos mientras un tanque israelí se movía cerca. Testigos dijeron que las tropas israelíes dispararon los proyectiles para dispersar a los palestinos después de que el centro se quedara sin suministros el jueves.