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00:12hello join us we have last minute information in the agenda of pablo the 14th he is arriving at
00:20this hour to the open space near the pampas the pimentel for the homely of the holy father we are
00:29seeing thousands and thousands of people who have been gathering in this space since very early in the
00:37morning and very late at night just today on on thursday to offer him to offer probably a 14th
00:46a warming welcome and a warming welcome back to the to chiclayo city the city of chiclayo where he
00:56spent many years during his early stages in this path as a missionary first as the pastor of a local
01:06church and then as the dear as well the bishop of chiclayo now this we are witnessing as well the
01:15historic comeback of pope leo 14th as people are receiving him waving flags in yellow and white
01:26and beating him as well and asking for their blessings pope leo 14th is expected as well to offer
01:35a holy mass in the face of thousands of devotees of pilgrims who have been coming from several parts
01:43of the country but also from this beloved city of chiclayo that is going to be as well a very
01:53personal
01:54holy mass because this is where he belongs and that is what he as well assured when when as well
02:06becoming
02:07pope in pope on 2025 on early 2025 and this is a beautiful image for paulio 14th a very emotional
02:18return to his beloved city of chiclayo peru where he spent nearly a decade as as her where he served
02:29as
02:29well as bishop for nearly a decade and with residents and former friends are eagerly eagerly awaiting
02:37for his arrival and this is precisely the moment in which he is making an entrance to this locality
02:48to offer to campus the pimentel to offer a holy mass in the first in the face of thousands of
02:57devotees
02:59he arriving in chiclayo earlier today and since very early on friday morning thousands of parishioners began
03:09gathering and heading toward the pimentel plains in chiclayo awaiting for this most expected arrival of the
03:18pontiff he is scheduled as well to to hold a mass in the pampas of pimentel a private visit as
03:27well to a
03:27chapel and meetings with the local clergy university students community representatives the anticipation
03:36of his arrival as well mobilized the authorities across the city and thousands of the faithful who
03:45hope to accompany him during this apostolic tour the most personal one in this 12-day visit to latin
03:53america and before assuming leadership of the catholic church as robert prevost he carried out his
04:01pastoral work and lived for eight years in the northern peruvian town in addition as well to serving
04:08as a bishop so he has been he faced in those many complex scenarios such as the covet 19 pandemic
04:18such
04:18as as well several natural disasters and people when you ask for pope leo 14th they have him in a
04:26very
04:28endearing place because of his work his as well his advocacy towards the most vulnerable people towards
04:37those in need and following in the footsteps as well of his predecessor pope leo francis my pardon precisely
04:47choosing argentina as one of his legs in this tough day tour also was carrying much of symbolism and in
04:56that
04:56sense pope leo 14th as well have mentioned over and over the ideals as well of pope francis and in
05:07a way as
05:07well it has been a whole match and now peru is more is more like a symbolic return to his
05:16second homeland
05:17it's more like a personal path the one that he is going to be fulfilling you can see the joyfulness
05:25with
05:26which the people are waving at pope leo 14th awaiting as well for his messages for his words for his
05:34emotions to
05:35support in in those stay in his statements we've seen since very since his very arrival to lima peru he
05:45have
05:45been very emotional we have been witnessing as well how he has been bursting into into into tears while
05:54speaking to the people it's like as he has said returning to his second homeland the pope was born in
06:04the
06:04u.s but have been but lived in peru for over 20 years and that gave him as well the
06:12peruvian citizenship so
06:14this is perhaps the most personal visit the most personal contact and connection that pope leo 14th has been
06:24undergoing since since undergoing since since assuming the the papal his papal season is becoming the bishop of rome
06:33and this is what we are set to witness precisely at this hour in the plains of in the plains
06:43of this hour of pampas
06:44de pimentel where thousands and thousands of deputies and pilgrims have been gathering since very early in the morning
06:54we can see that there is a huge crowd of people in this very open space and is going to
07:02be
07:03emotional is going to be spiritual as well of deeply connections as pope leo 14th is said as well to
07:12offer his holy mass
07:14perhaps perhaps the most symbolic and and also personal holy mass offer ever offered since his papacy
07:25began in early in early 2025 after the passing away of pope francis and this is if you're if you're
07:35joining us
07:35at this hour during this broadcast you're seeing live images of pope francis returning making a historic
07:43comeback to chiclayo the city of chiclayo in northern peru where he spent nearly a decade as a bishop
07:53and it it has much connection to his very early stages as a missionary and before becoming the bishop
08:03of rome now he's returning he was he left here as the bishop of chiclayo and now he's returning
08:10as the bishop of rome but the message remains the same to leave no one behind to bring the word
08:18of god
08:19but also speaking directly to the hearts of the people and those most precisely those in need those in
08:29facing the strong the strongest consequences of the political and geopolitical tensions in latin america
08:39we've seen this throughout his path towards the three countries that he has been visiting and that
08:47is uruguay argentina and and now peru he has been speaking to them to those in need to those who
08:54cannot
08:54make need ends meet and also this has been rather than he has been carrying a message that goes beyond
09:05religion that goes beyond spirituality he has brought a political message as well to the establishment of
09:12those nations such as in argentina with the government and the administration of javier mille he has been
09:19speaking to them to them precisely it has been as well um sending a direct message to to the establishment
09:28the ones who are in charge of making decisions to think as well in those in a vulnerable position those
09:36the poorest of the country those with illnesses with chronic illnesses with disabilities
09:44as well so this has been a pilgrimage as well of of of advocacy for the closing need those in
09:56those very vulnerable in the different societies that he has been visiting as well and also speaking to
10:07the youth to the younger generations who are as well one of the main targets of this visit of as
10:16well speaking
10:17directly to them saying for example let no one take away your freedom but also speaking as well
10:24to their needs to re-approach to god for their needs as well to be humble to be centered in
10:34the in their
10:35aspirations and not letting anything and no decisions that are away from their from their the reach not
10:46letting them to as well to hold their their aspirations to be free and and this is the pope this
10:54is pope leo 14th this is the message that he is being caring for over 10 days already for
11:04during this this 12-day tour that he is fulfilling in throughout latin america visiting different
11:14countries of the south american region but this is going to be very special for for him and for the
11:21people
11:22of chiclayo because it is the comeback to the places that he used to to to to go when he
11:31was a bishop of chiclayo
11:34a position that he held for almost a decade we are seeing thousands if not millions of people
11:41gathered at this hour filled with emotions with the gratitude of being closer to him once again because
11:48because they remember what what he did during those years of bishop in chiclayo he was the one who was
11:55near those in need who was as well the seeking ways during the covet night 19 pandemic of right of
12:04rising
12:04funds for the purchase of of an oxygen plant plant in years in which it was very hard for those
12:13poorest
12:13peoples of the country to get access to health care and to halt as well this covet 19 consequences health
12:23consequences and also he was the one present during several natural disasters of the nation such as the
12:32floodings on 2017 if i'm not mistaken and also precisely during the flooding caused by the coastal
12:45el nino in 2017 and also during cyclone jacku in 2023 he was the person who couldn't put on his
12:54boots
12:55and waded into the water he helped people he was very approachable he was very kind
13:01those are the statements of of witnesses who were closer to who who were able to be close to him
13:10in those years of of much of much uncertainty for peru in the midst of national disasters bishop previous
13:19as it was his previous name also led appeals for aid for the more than 10 000 people affected
13:27by flooding caused by cyclone jacku in the north of the country he then said i ask you to be
13:37generous
13:37i ask you to open your hearts so that we can help one another and move forward as we have
13:44done in other
13:45times of crisis previous said this in a video while standing in the water in the district of ilimo in
13:53the
13:54lambayake region precisely in the city of chiclayo also he has been advocating for migrants in many of
14:03his speeches throughout the latin american tour he has said we may leave no one behind regardless of the
14:10race their skin color their ideologies their religious beliefs regardless of their migratory status those
14:18were precisely his statements in several locations throughout this region and also he doing precisely
14:27his years as a bishop of chiclayo he was as well advocating for the protection of migrants in this in
14:37this
14:37city in several waves of migratory flows throughout south america in in in the years of the end in the
14:49end of
14:502025 precise more more specifically and he has been as well promoting spaces for listening and speaking
15:00in previous created spaces for dialogue encourage many people to raise their voices to denounce abuses
15:09during the internal conflict the country experienced beginning in the 1980s and to openly discuss the
15:17social reality during the dictatorship of late president alberto fujimori in the 1990s who is actually as well
15:26the late father of incumbent president keiko fujimori and previous at that moment also participated in
15:38collecting signatures for the creation of the truth and reconciliation commission which investigated the
15:46violence between 1980 and 2000 and human rights abuses particularly in rural peru we're speaking as well
15:54about forced sterilizations against mostly rural women in peru in his latest statements he has been as well
16:04addressing those women those victims of of also gender-based violence he from peru demanded the end to sexism
16:16this is very very modern idea the one that he that he has been out of putting in his statements
16:28during every address to the nation he has been speaking directly to the core problems of each society he has
16:35visited to and in peru he has been putting women precisely at the very center of
16:42of his of his of his messages saying that and speaking as well to the establishment to guarantee protections for
16:50them and precisely he has been affirming that women who have suffered violence or any other kind of mistreatment should
17:00be prioritized by the decisions the policy making in the country and this is also taking place one week after
17:09the supreme court of peru decided to
17:11to halt all investigations into the force the sterilizations of women during the dictatorship of late president alberto fuyi mori
17:20so it is remarkable
17:23the message that he has been carrying because it goes far beyond faith it speaks as well to the conditions
17:30people are living in because of the decision of the of the establishment of the government of each country in
17:39latin america region that has been
17:41as well battered by much uncertainty by confrontations by inequality and a rising poverty rates as well region wide and
17:53this goes far beyond religion this includes as well this is also political stance this is as well it exposes
18:03the place that latin america holds within the catholic church and within the
18:11the vatican the vatican the vatican city we are at this moment witnessing this for example this banner that reads
18:20the pope is chiclayano and that is as well the meaning what what it represents for the people of chiclayo
18:33having his their pope then bishop of chiclayo and now the bishop of rome
18:40coming coming coming back to his to his to his beloved chiclayo people are at this hour filled with emotions
18:50we can read banners saying the pope is from chiclayo we are as well seeing
18:56waving waving the flags waving the flags waving the flags waving the flags of the vatican city in yellow and
19:00white and also there's music so let's listen to this moment of prayers and also that is accompanied as well
19:09with ceremonial music
19:17as well as the
19:55The Pope is Chiclayo is the banner that we are reading and throughout the crowd people
20:02are holding banners saying the Pope is from Chiclayo.
20:08So this represents the feel, the atmosphere at this hour there in the plains of Pampas de Pimentel
20:17where thousands if not millions of people have gathered to listen, to attend the Holy Mass of Your Holiness Pope
20:27Leo XIV.
20:29As also it is expected that Pope Leo offers some personal words towards the people of Chiclayo
20:38because for what this city represents to him and because of his deep roots here at the mark as well,
20:49the early stages of his work as a missionary, that took him as well to be the Bishop of Chiclayo
21:00for almost a decade,
21:02a decade that was marked by many circumstances in which Pope Leo XIV was as well present and helping and
21:12supporting,
21:13especially those in a vulnerable situation, those who have lost everything to natural disasters or to violence and any other
21:25circumstances.
21:27And now it is the reason why this tour has gotten so much attention by the rest of the world,
21:37not just because it entails the Pope, the bishop of Rome, but also because we are seeing the true image
21:50of Pope Leo XIV precisely,
21:54as he is making a comeback, a very symbolic comeback to his very own roots.
22:03He is walking down his own steps. In Chiclayo he is going to be visiting places that are bringing back
22:13all of his nostalgia as well
22:15and that is why the eyes of the world are upon Chiclayo at this hour because we are seeing a
22:22Pope filled with emotions
22:24and also a Pope that has a lot to say and to give to his pilgrim community of Catholics and
22:35of as well the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.
22:41And we are surely seeing that the residents of Chiclayo are remembering him fondly.
22:50We can see more banners. This one, we were seeing one that said your love has brought us here.
23:00We are also seeing that we are certain that in the crowd many of the great majority of the people
23:09that have gathered here today
23:11is because they have a remembrance of Pope Leo as a bishop, as Bishop Prievest.
23:17And that is why he is as well earning so much affection from the people of Chiclayo, Peru at this
23:28hour.
23:30Thousands of them, if not over a million of people have been gathered since very early in the morning.
23:38So if you are joining us in this broadcast at this hour, may us repeat that we are seeing live
23:45images of Pope Leo XIV at the Pampas de Pimentel
23:52where he is due to offer a Holy Mass for millions of expectations of millions of devotees, pilgrims who are
24:03present here since very early in the morning
24:07to offer their respects and feel the blessings of Pope Leo XIV in this historic comeback to his beloved city
24:16of Chiclayo.
24:18As he is returning after assuming his papal see on early 2025, he served precisely in Chiclayo as a bishop
24:33for nearly a decade
24:35where residents and former friends were eagerly as well awaiting expectance for his arrival to Peru.
24:47To Peru, to Chiclayo, as Peru holds a special place in Leo's heart, he shared its joys, he shared as
24:56well his hardships.
24:58He learned here so much from the faith of ordinary people and experienced as well the strength of a church
25:07that knows how to preserve through trials.
25:11Also, one of the feelings accompanying his return is in Pope Leo XIV's own words, a humble and joyful gratitude
25:23for what he received during the years of his ministry in Peru from everyone,
25:31especially the humblest members of the people of God and also this is going to be a great gift both
25:41for the many people that have been gathering in this plain for many hours already,
25:50but also to Pope Leo XIV himself.
25:55The Pope returns to Peru as a bishop of Rome, successor of Peter and pastor of the Universal Church.
26:04This is a great gift for the many people who have known and loved him for many years already.
26:13It brings an even deeper and an even stronger bond of communication with the whole great family of God as
26:22the love experience between the people and the Pope have been felt very deeply.
26:31Even when there is just a few hours after his arrival in Chiclayo, let's listen to more of the environment,
26:41of the feeling of the people gathered at this hour in the very gates of another Holy Mass,
26:52but one that is going to be very much personal.
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29:26Live images at this hour of Pablo XIV at this very moment as he is said to hold a holy
29:36mass at the Pampas de Pimentel Plains in Chiclayo City.
29:42This is going to be the most personal holy mass suffered by Pablo XIV precisely in this 12-day tour
29:50to South America in Chiclayo, the city that saw him become a bishop in a position that he held for
29:59almost a decade.
30:00An encounter that has been filled with emotions with gratitude as well for this historic comeback by the people of
30:10Chiclayo at this hour.
30:12We are going to continue following closely the updates from this Papal visit to Peru, but more specifically the feelings
30:21that are evolving and unfolding precisely after this visit.
30:24So stay tuned with Telesuit English for more.