Pope Leo XIV, preaching to a cheering crowd of more than 120,000 attendees at a Friday open-air mass in the Cameroon port city of Douala, continued his forceful message of peace on the second leg of his current 11-day Africa tour. The US -born pontiff urged those who traveled far and wide to hear him: "Do not give in to distrust and discouragement. Reject every form of abuse or violence, which deceives with easy gains but hardens the heart and makes it insensitive." In his Friday homily, delivered in French, Leo urged Cameroonians to be "protagonists of the future." Africans now make up more than one-fifth of the Catholic Church's 1.4 billion members Image: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP Leo has been pushed into the headlines recently by attacks from US President Donald Trump and his Vice President JD Vance — both of whom have publicly lashed out at the head of the Roman Catholic Church after Leo condemned the folly of war and those who seek to misuse god to justify violence.…