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Pope Francis Mobbed by Crowds en Route Through Rio
- Published_at:2013-07-22
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:NTDTV
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- description: Thousands of Brazilians turned out on Monday (July 22) to greet Pope Francis on his first foreign trip as pontiff, swarming his car as he drove into Rio de Janeiro, where more than one million people are expected to gather to see the first Latin American to head the Roman Catholic Church. A smiling Francis waved to onlookers before heading to Rio's city center at the start of a week-long gathering of young faithful in Brazil, home to the world's largest Catholic population. Thousands of local Catholics, visiting pilgrims and curious Brazilians lined avenues to greet Francis, who rode in a closed car with his window open. The crush of well-wishers led to a lapse in security when crowds swarmed the car as it entered central Rio. People surrounded the vehicle, a small silver Fiat, to take photos and touch the pontiff through his open window. Bodyguards moved in to push back the crowd, which at one point was so heavy that the car was forced to a halt. The pope's visit to the coastal metropolis, a return to his home continent by the former Argentine cardinal, is part of the biennial World Youth Day gathering. The trip comes amid growing economic and social dissatisfaction in Brazil, which is still home to more than 120 million Catholics. The unease in June led to the biggest mass protests here in two decades as more than 1 million people in hundreds of cities rallied against everything from rising prices to corruption to poor public services. More than 20,000 soldiers, police and security officials have been deployed for the visit.
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