Pope Leo XIV returns to Peru to a big welcome, calls it his 'homeland'

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Pope Leo XIV opened the Peruvian leg of his South America tour on Wednesday, telling crowds in Lima that returning to the country where he served for two decades felt like coming home. The Vatican estimated that about 3 million people lined his motorcade route, the Associated Press reported. Leo holds Peruvian citizenship and spent more than two decades in Peru as a missionary priest and later as bishop of the northern city of Chiclayo before becoming pope. Also a US citizen, he is the first pope from either the United States or Peru. He sang Peru's national anthem with President Keiko Fujimori at the presidential palace.