Pope Leo urges South America to bridge divides on Uruguay-Argentina border

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Pope Leo urges South America to bridge divides on Uruguay-Argentina border during his three-country tour. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Pope Leo XIV arriving to officiate a mass in Paysandu, north-west Uruguay, on Nov 7 – the first stop of a 12-day tour that will also take him to Argentina and Peru.

PAYSANDU, Uruguay – Pope Leo on Nov 7 urged people in South America to bridge divides between their countries as he led an event on the Uruguay-Argentina border with tens of thousands on his 12-day trip across a region facing sharp political divisions.

Leo, on an ambitious three-country tour through Nov 17, travelled some 378km on Nov 7 from Montevideo to Paysandu, a riverside economic hub in Uruguay’s north-west, where crowds waited to see him outside overnight in heavy rain that eased off shortly before his arrival.

The 71-year-old pontiff, who is making one of the most intense foreign trips of a Catholic leader in decades less than a month after undergoing lung cancer surgery, urged people in Latin America to act with…

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