Overview
- Pope León XIV followed a tightly scheduled route on Sunday that took him from Chiclayo to Cusco for a Sacsayhuamán encounter and the Ángelus, then to Pucallpa for meetings with missionaries and a late afternoon mass before returning to Lima.
- On Saturday he carried out a coronation rite for the Virgin Inmaculada at Chiclayo’s Cathedral of Santa María and celebrated a mass in Santa Cruz de Succhabamba that drew more than 20,000 people.
- In homilies delivered during the visit the Pope urged the faithful not to “cede to violence” and called for prayer, patience and persistent denunciation of injustice as the proper means to pursue change.
- Delegations from Amazonian and indigenous communities traveled up to three days to reach Pucallpa for an audience with the Pope, bringing concerns about illegal mining, deforestation and long‑standing state neglect to the foreground.
- The visit will conclude with a final mass at Base Aérea Las Palmas at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, where large crowds began queuing the night before and military airbases and Peruvian Air Force helicopters have supported papal transfers and logistics.