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Half a million faithful attend Pope Léon XIV’s Mass in Peru

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Half a million faithful attend Pope Léon XIV’s Mass in PeruRicardo Stuckert · CC BY-SA 4.0

Pope Léon XIV said he was happy to return to Chiclayo, in northern Peru, where he had made his name as a bishop. This stop on his South American tour, which was at one point under threat after his surgery for lung cancer, gathered half a million people in the open air, according to France 24.

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