Ben Shapiro

And great shock, it turns out that the Algerian government will not register new churches.

And since 2019, they have been targeting churches.

Since 2019, some 43 Protestant churches have been closed.

Here is the Pope walking without shoes in the Great Mosque of Algiers with the rector, a man named Mohammed Mahmoud al-Qasimi.

Now, again, you can you can see him walking here and it's supposed to be interreligious solidarity and all the rest.

And then the pope gave a speech and he said that he came, quote, as a witness to the peace and hope the world so ardently desires and that your people have always sought, which the idea that the Algerian people have always sought peace.

I'm not going to go with accuracy.

That is not an accurate statement.

At least the Algerian government and the FLN have never sought peace so far as I'm aware.

He also said, quote, Africa knows all too well that people and organizations that dominate others destroy the world, which the Most High has created in order that we might live together.

And again, is that a critique of the government?

Because if it's not, it should be.

The Algerian government has been a dictatorship for a very, very long time.

They have sort of fake multi-party democracy there.

Meanwhile, the president of Algeria used the presence of the Pope to compliment him on his both sides-ism in the Middle East, calling him the world's most eloquent voice for peace at a time when conflicts are undermining security and stability in many parts of the globe, especially in the Middle East.

Now, again, I will point out the wild discrepancy between the amount of attention that was paid to a mistaken shutdown at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

That was quickly fixed by every member of the Israeli government in a country that has an increasing Christian population.

And the bizarre quiescence with which Islamic crackdowns on Christianity amounting to basically the complete destruction of a Christian community thousands of years old has been met.

And again, it is strange where Pope Leo chooses to put his focus.

He's commented pretty directly on American immigration policy.