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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.
Pope Francis greets the crowd before celebrating Mass at Lobito beach in Iquique, Chile, Jan. 18. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithVatican Dispatch
In Iquique, Pope Francis calls on Chileans to show hospitality to immigrants
Gerard O’Connell
“There is no Christian joy when doors are closed; there is no Christian joy when others are made to feel unwanted,” the pope said.
‘This is calumny’: Pope Francis defends Bishop Barros against charges he knew of sexual abuse
FaithVatican Dispatch
‘This is calumny’: Pope Francis defends Bishop Barros against charges he knew of sexual abuse
Gerard O’Connell
Many in Chile opposed Francis’ appointment of Msgr. Barros as bishop because he is known to have belonged to the inner circle of a priest accused of abuse.
Flight attendants Carlos Ciuffardi, left, and Paola Podest, talk with journalists during a flight from Santiago, Chile, to Iquique, Chile, after Pope Francis married them in-flight early Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
FaithNews
Pope Francis blesses the marriage of two flight attendants aboard the papal plane
Gerard O’Connell
The couple said, “I do” Thursday morning after telling Francis that they had been married in a civil service in 2010.
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