Pope says Inca heartland ‘suffering’ as villages empty
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Arab News · Saudi Arabia · South America
SANTA CRUZ DE SUCCHABAMBA, Peru: Pope Leo XIV warned Saturday that the heartland of the ancient Inca Empire was “suffering,” as the remote, poverty-stricken communities he served as a missionary in Peru shrink dramatically. The head of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics flew by helicopter to the isolated town of Santa Cruz de Succhabamba in the Andes mountains — an area he visited on horseback when he lived in Peru as Robert Francis Prevost. Despite undergoing cancer surgery just one month ago, t
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