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Slightly injured pope ends Colombia tour with human rights appeal [View all]
Source: Reuters
#WORLD NEWS SEPTEMBER 10, 2017 / 7:26 AM / UPDATED 25 MINUTES AGO
Slightly injured pope ends Colombia tour with human rights appeal
Philip Pullella, Noe Torres
5 MIN READ
CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) - Pope Francis, his eye bandaged after a minor accident in the popemobile, wrapped up his trip to Colombia on Sunday appealing for an end to modern forms of slavery and denouncing political violence in neighboring Venezuela.
His last day in the Andean country got off to a rocky start when he lost his balance and bumped his head while riding in the popemobile. He bruised his cheekbone and cut his left eyebrow, blood staining his white cassock.
The Vatican said he received ice treatment and was fine.
A smiling pope continued the trip wearing a bandage over his cut. “I was punched. I‘m fine,” he joked afterwards, the bruises on his face clearly visible.
The pope flew from Bogota to Cartagena, a top tourist destination famous for its colonial walled ramparts that was home to Saint Peter Claver, a Spanish priest who ministered to slaves in Colombia in the 1600s, defying Spanish colonial masters who treated them as chattel.
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Slightly injured pope ends Colombia tour with human rights appeal
Philip Pullella, Noe Torres
5 MIN READ
CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) - Pope Francis, his eye bandaged after a minor accident in the popemobile, wrapped up his trip to Colombia on Sunday appealing for an end to modern forms of slavery and denouncing political violence in neighboring Venezuela.
His last day in the Andean country got off to a rocky start when he lost his balance and bumped his head while riding in the popemobile. He bruised his cheekbone and cut his left eyebrow, blood staining his white cassock.
The Vatican said he received ice treatment and was fine.
A smiling pope continued the trip wearing a bandage over his cut. “I was punched. I‘m fine,” he joked afterwards, the bruises on his face clearly visible.
The pope flew from Bogota to Cartagena, a top tourist destination famous for its colonial walled ramparts that was home to Saint Peter Claver, a Spanish priest who ministered to slaves in Colombia in the 1600s, defying Spanish colonial masters who treated them as chattel.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-colombia/slightly-injured-pope-ends-colombia-tour-with-human-rights-appeal-idUSKCN1BL0JF
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