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In Peru, Pope Francis says the church stands with the peoples of the Amazon and the earth
Gerard O’Connell
Francis is the first pope to come to the Amazon region, and he insisted that his first event and major speech of his visit to Peru should be to this place.
Pilgrims wait for Pope Francis to arrive for a meeting with people at the Jorge Basadre Institute in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, Jan. 19. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Politics & SocietyNews
‘Machismo’ culture blinds women’s leading role in society, Pope Francis says
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
Society cannot look the other way and allow a culture that demeans the dignity of women to persist, Pope Francis said.
FaithFaith in Focus
How Our Lady of Altagracia became the (unofficial) patroness of the Dominican Republic
J.D. Long García
“Our country is so important to us. We carry the Dominican Republic in our hearts.”
In this Jan. 14, 2018 photo, parishioner Lucero Fatima Cusi embraces Father Pablo Zabala, better known as Padre Pablo, during his last day as parish priest in Boca Colorado, part of Peru’s Madre de Dios region. After 10 years of service there, the 70-year-old Spanish priest has been transferred 130 kms (80 miles) away to Puerto Maldonado, known as the gateway to the Amazon jungle. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Politics & SocietyNews
Priest tends to miners and sex workers deep in Peru’s Amazon
Franklin Briceno - Associated Press
It's near this forlorn corner of the Amazon that Pope Francis will visit Friday amid what has been called a modern-day gold rush of illegal miners threatening the world's largest rainforest.
Men carry a replica of Peru's most revered religious icon, the "Lord of Miracles," during an Oct. 18, 2017 procession in Lima. Each year thousands of Catholics gather to commemorate the image's survival in a 17th-century earthquake that destroyed Lima. (CNS photo/Mariana Bazo, Reuters)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Jesuit university president hopes Pope Francis can help church in Peru “regain its prophetic voice”
Gerard O’Connell
Father Ernesto Cavassa was provincial of the Jesuits in Peru from 1998 to 2004, and president of the Conference of Latin American Jesuit Provincials from 2005 to 2012.
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Pope Francis blesses Chilean couple aboard papal plane
America Video
Love is in the air! Pope Francis blessed the marriage of two flight attendants aboard the papal plane en route to Iquique in Chile. The couple married in a civil ceremony in 2010 but due to Chile's 2010 earthquake, they never followed up with a church ceremony.
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