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The Latest: Pope departs Peru, concluding South America trip
LIMA, Peru - Here's "The Latest"
on Pope Francis' visit to Peru (all times local).
7:12 PM: Pope Francis
is heading back to Rome after a weeklong South America trip marred by
violence and fallout from a clerical sex abuse scandal.
The pope's plane took off from the Peruvian capital
Sunday evening following a Catholic ritual mass before 1.3 million faithful, a warm
ending to an otherwise restive trip.
Francis traveled first to Chile,
where he met with and apologized to victims of clerical sex abuse. But
he later stoked outrage when he said victims' claims that a bishop knew
about abuse and did nothing to stop it were "all calumny."
Several churches were set on fire during Francis'
trip in Chile, and police fired tear gas at protesters outside a mass in
the capital, Santiago.
Francis received a far warmer welcome in Peru as
he traveled deep into the Amazon to defend the rights of indigenous
people and spoke against corruption.
4:45 PM: Authorities
say more than 1 million people are gathered at an airbase for Pope
Francis' final mass in Peru as he concludes a restive trip to Latin
America. More
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