Pope thanks crowds on emotional return to ‘second home’ in Peru’s Chiclayo
Al Jazeera reports that Pope Leo XIV made an emotional return on 13 November 2026 to Chiclayo, Peru — his former diocese, where he spent two decades as missionary and bishop and is still known as 'Padre Roberto' — one month after lung cancer surgery, thanking crowds who camped overnight to see him. Vatican estimates put about 500,000 at Mass in Pimentel and a million more along the motorcade route, and doctors have said his cancer was localised and needs no further treatment.
