{"id":85178,"date":"2026-08-05T08:09:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85178"},"modified":"2026-08-05T08:09:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:09:46","slug":"pope-to-visit-south-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/pope-to-visit-south-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope To Visit South America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/2148ff3\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3706x2471+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Ff7%2F2b%2F402a4380aa0d85d4c38a73303a79%2F192e597cc035477b9869c10b52cacd2f\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/pope-leo-xiv\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Pope Leo XIV<\/a><\/span> will make his first trip to Latin America as pontiff in November, returning to a region where he spent much of his ministry, with visits to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, the Vatican announced Wednesday.\u00a0The Nov. 6-17 trip will include stops in Montevideo, Paysand\u00fa and Florida in Uruguay; Buenos Aires, C\u00f3rdoba and Luj\u00e1n in Argentina; and Lima, Chiclayo, Cusco and Pucallpa in Peru.<\/p>\n<p>The visit is especially significant because of Leo\u2019s longstanding ties to Peru.\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pope-apologizes-slavery-role-holy-see-vatican-78df993c5604eb098b19f255b89b3155\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">The first U.S.-born pope<\/a><\/span>\u00a0spent decades there as a missionary and church leader and served as bishop of Chiclayo from 2015 to 2023. He also holds Peruvian citizenship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Pope Leo XIV will make his first trip to Latin America as pontiff in November, returning to a.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85179,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85178\/revisions\/85179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}