Pope Leo XIV affirmed on Tuesday that God “is not with the wicked, with the arrogant, with the proud; the heart of God is with the little ones and the humble,” a day after the president of the United States, Donald Trump, accused the pontiff of being “weak” in foreign policy. The pope made these remarks on the second day of his visit to Algeria, during a stop at a small center for the elderly in Annaba, a town in the country's northwest where Saint Augustine was bishop, a figure who inspired the order to which the pope belongs. “I am happy because God dwells here, because where there is love and service, there is God,” the pope said in English to the religious sisters and about thirty elderly people who care for this center, managed by the Little Sisters of the Poor, to which he went after visiting the archaeological area of ancient Hippo. And he added: “I think that the Lord, from heaven, seeing a house like this, where they seek to live together in fraternity, might think: well, there is hope! Yes, because the heart of God is torn by wars, violence, injustices, and lies.” “But the heart of our Father is not with the wicked, with the arrogant, with the proud; the heart of God is with the little ones and the humble, and with them He carries forward His Kingdom of love and peace, each day.” The pope will conclude this brief visit to the city linked to the figure of Saint Augustine with a mass in the basilica named after the saint of Hippo. The visit to Algeria, the first leg of the pope's trip to Africa, began yesterday, Monday, marked by the words of Trump, who harshly criticized the pontiff, calling him “weak” and “terrible in foreign policy.” On the plane to Algiers, the American pontiff responded by saying he was not “afraid” of the Trump administration and would continue to raise his voice strongly against the war.