‘This visit is like a big party’: American pope receives rapturous welcome in Peru

Por Dan Collyns in Chiclayo · The Guardian Perú

Pope Leo XIV is visiting the country, where he spent nearly a decade as bishop, during an 11-day South American tour The walls in Chiclayo have been painted with colourful murals and banners welcoming Pope Leo XIV, but he is better known to residents of this city in northern Peru as “Padre Roberto” – a pastor who walked their streets, shared their love of local cuisine, and stood by them through natural disasters and the Covid-19 pandemic. Robert Prevost, 71, who spent nearly a decade as the…