In Buenos Aires' poor neighborhoods, residents recall beers and chats with Pope Francis
In the impoverished Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa 21-24, 68-year-old painter Heriberto Ayala still remembers how Pope ...
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Half a million families live in Buenos Aires slums and keep expanding vertically and horizontally
The periphery rings of slums and irregular settlements surrounding the city of Buenos Aires first flourished in the 1930s and 1940s along railways, but 66% of them have just over 15 years and 65% ...
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Pope Francis: The 'Papa Villero' and His Unwavering Bond with Villa 21-24
Pope Francis, once an archbishop visiting Buenos Aires' impoverished Villa 21-24, remains cherished for his humble ...
In Buenos Aires, thousands of faithful pray for Pope Francis
Thousands of Argentines, many from poor neighborhoods around the capital, gathered on Sunday at a church on the outskirts of ...
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The poor praying for Pope Francis' health packed famous basilica in Buenos Aires
Argentines working in humble barrios, or neighborhoods, and the people they serve, prayed for the health of Pope Francis at ...
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The Tango
In the last two decades of the 19th century, the dance known as the tango emerges out of the immigrant culture of Argentina's dockside slums ... in the brothels of Buenos Aires, where it is ...
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In Buenos Aires' Poor Neighborhoods, Residents Recall Beers and Chats With Pope Francis
In Buenos Aires' Poor Neighborhoods ... later earning him the nickname of "papa villero", or slum pope. Reuters spoke to half a dozen residents and churchgoers in those neighborhoods who all ...
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In Buenos Aires, thousands of faithful pray for Pope Francis
had served as the Archbishop of Buenos Aires where his closeness to the poor earned him a nickname: "the slum pope." "I pray for him to have a speedy recovery," 55-year-old housewife Dora Calvo ...