Pope Leo is scheduled on Wednesday to close a three-day stop in Argentina with a morning outdoor Mass at the shrine of Our Lady of Lujan, then fly to Peru, France 24 reported¹.

France 24 said the Mass is expected to draw millions at the country's principal Catholic pilgrimage site, where people have been gathering for days¹. Reuters published a same-day account under a headline that likewise described a Mass expected to draw millions before a Peru homecoming; its full article was not retrieved for this filing².

The Argentina events sit inside a 12-day, three-nation South America itinerary running through Nov. 17, France 24 said¹. It described the pope as holding U.S. and Peruvian citizenship and as the first Peruvian citizen to lead the Catholic Church¹.

Besides the Lujan Mass, France 24 said he would visit one of Argentina's largest prisons, presenting that stop as part of a focus on people on the margins¹. The same report said the Argentina visit has underscored church criticism of President Javier Milei's cuts to social programs; Milei's government was not quoted in the France 24 account reviewed here¹.

France 24 said the pope would then begin what it called a personal stretch of the trip, returning to a country where he served as a missionary for about 20 years and was bishop of Chiclayo from 2015 to 2023¹. He is due at Callao Air Base at 5:30 p.m. local time (2230 GMT), then at the presidential palace for an address to President Keiko Fujimori, the report said¹.

Fujimori won office this year in a close vote that France 24 said was marked by fraud accusations and delayed counting¹. The report identified her as the daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, who served from 1990 to 2000 and died in 2024¹.

France 24 said that in 2017, when he was Bishop Robert Prevost, Leo criticized a pardon of the elder Fujimori, who had been convicted of serious human rights abuses, arguing he should seek forgiveness from victims if Peru were to achieve reconciliation¹. The report said Keiko Fujimori campaigned on her father's political legacy¹. Her response to the pope's past comments was not included in the France 24 text reviewed here¹.

What the pope will say in Lima, how far he will go on Peruvian politics, and the size of the Lujan crowd remain to be seen on Wednesday^1,2.