Pope’s visit to hub of Afro-Peruvian community casts spotlight on African slave trade to Peru - AP News
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Pope’s visit to hub of Afro-Peruvian community casts spotlight on African slave trade to Peru - AP News

Source:Associated Press
Author:Luis Andres Henao, Nicole Winfield

Pope Leo XIV is putting the spotlight on Afro-Peruvians during a visit to a hub of their community. Leo will lead a prayer meeting at the sanctuary of St. Turibius of Mogrovejo in Zaña, where he often visited to pray while he was bishop of nearby Chiclayo. In…