Report From Buenos Aires: More than 2 Million People Are Waiting to See Leon XIV
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A crowd took one of the main avenues of Buenos Aires on Monday, when Pope Leo XIV exalted the strength of the Catholic Church in South America at an outdoor mass that gathered a record audience of 2.5 million people, on the first papal visit to Argentina in 39 years. Argentineans spread for miles along Avenida del Libertador, waving the white and yellow flag of the Vatican and pressing against the security barriers to see the Pontiff. It was the…
More than two million faithful gathered for the mass celebrated by Pope Leo XIV in Buenos Aires on Monday, according to local officials, and pilgrims came from all over Argentina and spent the night in tents so they could at least see the pontiff from afar.
Argentina is in the "Papa-León fever": A good two million people participated in a gigantic open-air service. Leo XIV praised the importance of the family and pleaded for the protection of the weak.
More than two million people went out to the streets of Buenos Aires to greet Pope Leon XIV on his way to Libertadores Avenue on his arrival for Mass in front of the Monument of the Spaniards. Our correspondent Natalio Cosoy told us about the atmosphere in the city.
It is a human carpet to welcome Pope Leo in Buenos Aires: a record of two and a half million people poured into the Monument de los Espanoles...
A crowd of 2.5 million believers welcomed the Pontiff on his historic first visit to Argentina since 1987
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