Pope In Africa - Day One- Links

I Shall try to update this through out the day.

The trip will have some importance because :

(1) The centrality of Africa in Christianity's future
(2) The Holy Father will touch on topics that are hot button issues and the Press no doubt will sensationalized
(3) The Pope's interaction with Muslims on this trip
(4) We should get hints of the long awaited Papal Statement on Social Justice and economic concerns that keeps being delayed. It is currently being re written in part because of the world wide banking crisis.

Related to point 4 there is some talk that this could be one of the more important Catholic statements on Social Justice concerns since the ones from the late 1800's

Links

Full Papal Statement on Touchdown LINK

EWTN is carrying much of this live and it is being archived LINK

Major Resource here to check daily as to Africa Trip

The Ratzinger Forum is the best place to go for pics and news article Start on this page LINK
They have the Pope's schedule for this Apostolic visitation up.

The News articles they have up from the international press are :
THE CONTEXT FOR BENEDICT XVI'S FIRST VISIT TO AFRICA from Vatican Radio THE CATHOLIC OUTLOOK from the Vatican Newspaper

FIRST REPORTS ON THE POPE'S INFLIGHT NEWS CONFERENCE translated from the Italian Press

On Africa trip, Pope says condoms won't solve AIDS by the AP

Pope Benedict XVI: Condoms make AIDS crisis worse by the UK Daily Telegraph

Pope, on plane, says Church can help Africa address its problems by CNS

Catholics hope Benedict XVI can win ground in Angola by Reuters

500,000 faithful expected to attend Papal Mass in Luanda by the Angola press

Benedict arrives in Cameroon by the AP

The full transcript of the Papal Online press conference that usually has something explosive in it should be online shortly

More Updates to Come