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Pope Leo’s South America Tour

Headline via Foreign Policy · first report 13 Nov, 18:30 IST, latest 14 Nov, 22:24 IST

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3 independent news organisations have reported this story. The first report we saw came from Foreign Policy at 13 Nov, 18:30 IST; the latest is from The Straits Times at 14 Nov, 22:24 IST. Rational Times has not independently confirmed the details: read each report through the links below.

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The pontiff’s trip is as much about politics as religion.
The huge crowds turning out to see the 71-year-old pontiff have prompted heightened fears among health authorities in Latin America, which has seen a surge in measles cases this year.
SANTA CRUZ DE SUCCHABAMBA, Peru, Nov 14 - Pope Leo travelled on Saturday to Peru's western Andean mountains on a special stop on his 12-day South America tour to visit a remote town of under 6,000 inhabitants who once knew him as the bishop of Chiclayo, the…

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