Pope Francis has held a huge outdoor mass - attended by about 200,000 people - in a northern coastal region of Peru struggling to rebuild in the wake of devastating floods last year. On Thursday Pope Francis created controversy in Chile, when he accused victims of the country's most notorious paedophile of slander. Pope Francis will then go to the town's poor 'Buenos Aires' neighborhood which was especially hard hit by last April's flooding. Bare-chested tribesmen danced and sang for the pope when he arrived in the Peruvian city of Puerto Maldonado. Pope Francis, 81, arrived Thursday afternoon in Peru, the second and last leg of a week-long South American visit.

Source: Daily Mail January 20, 2018 12:47 UTC