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Regina Garcia Cano - Associated PressFranklin Briceno - Associated Press
Pope Leo XIV is a dual citizen of the United States and Peru, where he first served as a missionary and then as an archbishop. That made him the first pope from each country.
In this Jan. 14, 2018 photo, parishioner Lucero Fatima Cusi embraces Father Pablo Zabala, better known as Padre Pablo, during his last day as parish priest in Boca Colorado, part of Peru’s Madre de Dios region. After 10 years of service there, the 70-year-old Spanish priest has been transferred 130 kms (80 miles) away to Puerto Maldonado, known as the gateway to the Amazon jungle. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Franklin Briceno - Associated Press
It's near this forlorn corner of the Amazon that Pope Francis will visit Friday amid what has been called a modern-day gold rush of illegal miners threatening the world's largest rainforest.