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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Pope Leo XIV on Saturday slammed the deaths of children in areas of wealthy Uruguay gripped by drug violence and urged young people to “dare” to get married, on the second day of his South American tour. Just three weeks after undergoing surgery for lung cancer, the 71-year-old pontiff is on a 12-day tour of the continent where he served nearly two decades as a missionary. On Saturday, he visited the crime-blighted Montevideo neighborhood of Casavalle. The murder rate in…
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Associated Press11h ago
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Pope Leo XIV on Saturday slammed the deaths of children in areas of wealthy Uruguay gripped by drug violence and urged young people to “dare” to get married, on the second day of his South American tour. Just three weeks after undergoing surgery for lung cancer, the 71-year-old pontiff is on a 12-day tour of the continent where he served nearly two decades as a missionary. On Saturday, he visited the crime-blighted Montevideo neighborhood of Casavalle. The murder rate in…
OriginalAssociated Press11h ago
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Pope Leo XIV on Saturday slammed the deaths of children in areas of wealthy Uruguay gripped by drug violence and urged young people to “dare” to get married, on the second day of his South American tour. Just three weeks after undergoing surgery for lung cancer, the 71-year-old pontiff is on a 12-day tour of the continent where he served nearly two decades as a missionary. On Saturday, he visited the crime-blighted Montevideo neighborhood of Casavalle. The murder rate in…
OriginalAssociated Press11h ago
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Pope Leo XIV on Saturday slammed the deaths of children in areas of wealthy Uruguay gripped by drug violence and urged young people to “dare” to get married, on the second day of his South American tour. Just three weeks after undergoing surgery for lung cancer, the 71-year-old pontiff is on a 12-day tour of the continent where he served nearly two decades as a missionary. On Saturday, he visited the crime-blighted Montevideo neighborhood of Casavalle. The murder rate in…
OriginalMONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Pope Leo XIV on Saturday slammed the deaths of children in areas of wealthy Uruguay gripped by drug violence, as he visited the most crime-ridden neighborhood in the South American country. Just three weeks after undergoing surgery for lung cancer, the 71-year-old pontiff is on a 12-day tour of the continent where he served nearly two decades as a missionary. Leo walked amid high security through the streets of the Casavalle area of Montevideo, where the murder rate is…
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Al Jazeera18h ago
Vatican says some 40,000 Catholic faithful attended the pontiff's service in Uruguay's western city of Paysandu.
OriginalPope Leo XIV urged Catholics in Uruguay to build bridges of faith and fraternity on the second day of his 12-day tour of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru. The pope's three-country tour comes just three weeks…
OriginalMONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Pope Leo XIV on Saturday slammed the deaths of children in areas of wealthy Uruguay gripped by drug violence and urged young people to “dare” to get married, on the second day of his South American tour. Just three weeks after undergoing surgery for lung cancer, the 71-year-old pontiff is on a 12-day tour of the continent where he served nearly two decades as a missionary. On Saturday, he visited the crime-blighted Montevideo neighborhood of Casavalle. The murder rate in…
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