ABC News’ Matt Rivers travels to Chiclayo, Peru, the city where now Pope Leo XIV is celebrated for his time as a missionary, ...

Peruvians have celebrated the election of a man many knew as a missionary and bishop during his 2 decades of service in the ...

People in the city of Chiclayo, where Leo XIV served as bishop for about eight years, gathered to celebrate a man they see as one of their own.

Pope Leo XIV made time in his busy schedule to welcome his friend Father Hugo Sánchez and Sánchez’s mother to the Vatican.

Thousands of Catholics packed the plaza outside the Cathedral of Santa Maria de Chiclayo in this northern Peruvian city to ...

Before he became the new pope, Robert Prevost was the bishop of Chiclayo, a city in the north of Peru, where many describe ...

People react at the Cathedral of St. Mary in Chiclayo, Peru, May 8, 2025, the day Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected ...

A flag from the United States waves from the crowd as Pope Leo XIV appears at the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica for ...

Pope Leo XIV leads his first Mass as pontiff in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican May 9, 2025. Pope Leo, formerly Cardinal ...

New pope's deliberate decision to identify with Peru in particular and the Global South generally is no accident ...

The new pope’s status as an American shocked me, and I immediately began to consider the politics and symbolism of the choice.