{"id":88345,"date":"2026-11-12T07:56:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T12:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88345"},"modified":"2026-11-12T07:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T12:56:24","slug":"three-million-welcome-pope-in-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/three-million-welcome-pope-in-peru\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Million Welcome Pope In Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From CW News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIV returned to Peru, where he ministered as a missionary and later as a bishop, and encouraged the nation\u2019s leaders to listen to others and serve the common good.<\/p>\n<p>Following a farewell ceremony in Buenos Aires<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> (<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LCfQ4a6CC8c\">video<\/a>), Pope Leo embarked on a flight of over four hours to <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Callao-Peru\">Callao<\/a>, less than ten miles from the Peruvian capital of Lima. During the flight, Pope Leo issued the customary <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/press.vatican.va\/content\/salastampa\/en\/bollettino\/pubblico\/2026\/11\/11\/261111d.html\">telegrams<\/a> to heads of state through whose airspace he passed.\u00a0The Pontiff arrived in Peru at 5:01 P.M. Following a welcome ceremony at the air base (<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hdXZeuTPJ_4\">video<\/a>), the Pope was driven to the Government Palace in Lima and arrived at 6:56 P.M. An estimated <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/press.vatican.va\/content\/salastampa\/en\/bollettino\/pubblico\/2026\/11\/11\/261111e.html\">three million Peruvians<\/a> welcomed Pope Leo; at the Government Palace, the Pope took part in another welcome ceremony (<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=URMMk5RjR4Q\">video<\/a>) before meeting privately with President <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Keiko-Fujimori\">Keiko Fujimori<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CW News: Pope Leo XIV returned to Peru, where he ministered as a missionary and later as a bishop,.<\/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":["post-88345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88345","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=88345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88346,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88345\/revisions\/88346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}