Robert Prevost may have made history Thursday by becoming the first pope from the United States. But in Peru, he is known as the saintly missionary who waded through mud after torrential rains flooded ...

Peruvians are elated after a Catholic cardinal who spent years guiding the faithful in the South American country was elected pope and hoped he will visit them soon in his new role.

After Pope Leo XIV’s election on May 8, a new survey shows the percentage of Catholics continues to decrease in Peru.

Peru's National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (Reniec) spent over US$ 30,000 to send four officials to the ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago native who spent his career ministering in Peru, has been elected the new Pope, becoming the first American to be named pontiff in the Catholic Church’s 2,000 ...

Pope Leo XIV has been known as the “Latin Yankee” in Rome for the decades he worked in Peru, ministering to the dispossessed ...

Hector Camacho remembers Robert Prevost, set to be formally inaugurated as Pope Leo XIV on Sunday, as a young jeans-wearing ...

The Reverend James Bretzke, a theology professor at John Carroll University in Ohio, told USA Today this week that a diplomat ...

Pope Leo XIV was Bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, from 2015 to 2023. Vera Pajares, of Vero Beach, attended masses officiated by then Bishop Robert Prevost. Pajares remembers him as a kind person whose ...

Robert Prevost first served as a bishop in Chiclayo, in northwestern Peru, from 2015 to 2023, and became a Peruvian citizen in 2015, so he has dual nationalities. Pope Francis brought him to Rome ...

Prevost, Now Pope Leo XIV, Known as the 'Saint of the North' in Peru for His Closeness to Poor VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost may have made history Thursday by becoming the first pope from ...