Tag: Peru

• Friday, November 13th 2026 - 02:58 UTC

  Leo XIV to 52,000 young people in Lima: “Be passionate about everything worthwhile”

  

  Pope Leo XIV met some 52,000 young people at Lima’s National Stadium on Thursday, according to El País, in the last event of his stay in the Peruvian capital before travelling to Chiclayo, the diocese he led as bishop. “Someone told me that Peru needs hope. You are the sign of hope,” he told them, to applause.

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• Thursday, November 12th 2026 - 10:59 UTC

  Leo XIV arrives in Peru, his “homeland”, defending international law and reconciliation

  

  Pope Leo XIV arrived in Lima on Wednesday, the final stage of his South American tour, and in his first speech in Peru, the country where he lived for some twenty years and whose nationality he holds, called for diplomacy that “respects international law” in the face of wars and for the country’s past events “to be dealt with justice and sensitivity”.

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• Friday, November 6th 2026 - 01:38 UTC

  Watchdog publishes a list of 77 clergy accused of abuse in Peru ahead of the Pope’s visit

  

  US-based organisation Bishop Accountability on Thursday presented in Lima a list of 77 members of Peru’s Catholic clergy publicly accused of sexually abusing minors, days before Pope Leo XIV, who lived in the country for more than two decades, begins his tour of South America. Victims and the organisation called on the pontiff to take concrete steps, including setting up a truth commission.

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• Thursday, November 5th 2026 - 07:00 UTC

  Peru declares an El Niño emergency in nearly three-quarters of the country ahead of the Pope’s visit

  

  Peru’s government has declared a two-month state of emergency over the risk of heavy rains linked to the El Niño phenomenon in 1,380 of the country’s 1,891 districts, about 73%, including all the places Pope Leo XIV will visit in northern Peru from November 13. The measure covers districts in all 24 departments and the province of Callao.

• Monday, October 12th 2026 - 08:59 UTC

  Pope Leo XIV to undergo surgery on a lung nodule a month before his tour of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru

  

  Pope Leo XIV will undergo surgery in Rome this week to remove a lung nodule detected at an early stage, less than a month before the start of his first tour of South America, which will take him to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru from November 6 to 17. The Vatican has announced no changes to the trip.

• Thursday, September 10th 2026 - 21:45 UTC

  Peru joins the Americas Shield during Rubio's visit to Lima

  

  Peru will join the Americas Shield, the US-backed security coalition against transnational organized crime, President Keiko Fujimori announced on Thursday after meeting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Government Palace.

• Friday, August 14th 2026 - 22:34 UTC

  Peru rehearses its response to a magnitude 8.8 quake off Lima and Callao

  

  Peru held the year's second national multi-hazard drill on Friday, an exercise testing evacuation protocols and the response capacity of the public and the authorities to a possible magnitude 8.8 earthquake centered off the central coast of Lima and Callao.

• Sunday, August 9th 2026 - 20:58 UTC

  Keiko Fujimori starts her term in Peru with 60% approval, Datum poll finds

  

  Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori has begun her five-year term with a 60% approval rating, against 24% disapproval and 16% who gave no opinion, according to a Datum Internacional survey published on Sunday by the newspaper El Comercio.

• Thursday, August 6th 2026 - 09:37 UTC

  Uruguay to open Pope Leo XIV's first South American tour

  

  Uruguay will be the first stop on Pope Leo XIV's apostolic journey to South America between November 6 and 17, the director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, confirmed on Wednesday.

• Tuesday, August 4th 2026 - 06:00 UTC

  Toledo seeks release on health grounds, saying he does not want to die in prison

  

  Former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo, 81, has asked President Keiko Fujimori to expedite the presidential pardon he requested on humanitarian grounds, in an interview given on Sunday from Barbadillo prison to the program Sin Rodeos on Panamericana Televisión.