Paris, France, Sept 26, 2026 (AFP) - Pope to hold giant mass on Champs-Elysees

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2026-09-26

Pope Leo XIV is to celebrate an open-air mass for some 600,000 believers on Saturday on the French capital's Place de la Concorde and adjoining Champs-Elysees. The leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics will lead the faithful in prayer from 3:00 pm (1300 GMT), on the second day of the first official papal visit to the European nation in 18 years. It will be a new public appearance after an estimated 300,000 people came out to see the pontiff......

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