A youngster holds a prayer card from Pope Francis during a special Mass at a Roman Catholic parish in Kangemi, a slum in Nairobi, Kenya, that is home to 650,000 people. The pope will meet slum dwellers and refugees during his five-day visit beginning Nov. 25 to Kenya, Uganda and Central African Republic.
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Pope Francis embarks on African trip during Christian-Muslim tension
Pope Francis’ first trip to Africa will highlight the problems of building dialogue between Christianity and Islam as both religions grow fast on the continent and threaten to widen an already volatile fault line.
