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Pope Leo XIV ends his visit to Uruguay with a tribute to women before departing to Argentina

Tens of thousands of people packed Florida’s main square for the Mass under brilliant blue skies, some walking for several kilometers to reach the site. The city has a population of about 40,000 but the Vatican estimated 50,000 were attending.


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00:01Pope Leo XIV wrapped up his visit to Uruguay on Sunday with an open-air mass outside a basilica in
00:08the south-central city of Florida.
00:11For his final event, the Pope paid homage to the women who passed on the Catholic faith and raised awareness
00:17against gender-based violence, calling on men to treat their wives with respect.
00:23His homily addressed a prominent issue in Latin America. Over the last five years, the region recorded nearly 20,000
00:29femicides, most of them committed by the victim's current or former partner.
00:34Pope Leo became the first pope in nearly four decades to visit Uruguay in hopes of reminding the increasingly secular
00:41nation of its Catholic identity.
00:44He arrived in Argentina later on Sunday, where he will meet President Javier Milei, a right-wing libertarian whose austerity
00:52policies have drawn sharp criticism from the Catholic Church.
00:55The high point of his visit is expected to be the third and final leg of his tour, which takes
01:01him to Peru, where he spent nearly two decades of his life, first as a missionary and then eight years
01:06as a bishop.
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