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3 million people welcome Pope Leo as he arrives in Peru
By COURTNEY MARES, OSV News
Published November 12, 2026Pope Leo XIV arrived in Lima Nov. 11 for the much-anticipated final leg of his 12-day apostolic journey to South America, landing in the country that the pope described as “one of my many homes.”
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At Lima Mass for 1.3 million, Pope Francis preaches message of hope
By BARBARA J. FRASER, Catholic News Service
Published January 25, 2018LIMA, Peru (CNS)—Pope Francis took his message of hope to this sprawling, dusty capital of Peru, celebrating Mass within view of the rocky, waterless Andean slopes where most of the city’s poorest residents live. The day’s Scripture readings, in which Jonah was sent to Nineveh and Jesus set out toward Galilee, “reveal a God who […] Full Story
