成群结队的人潮周四涌入利马街头，教皇利奥作为首位领导天主教会的秘鲁公民，开启了充满情感的返乡之行第二天，此行已打破人群聚集纪录。
Throngs of people were flooding Lima's streets on Thursday as Pope Leo, the first Peruvian citizen to lead the Catholic Church, opened the second day of an emotional return visit home that has already broken crowd records.
朝圣者、家庭和教会团体挤满了利马历史中心的大部分区域，该区域实际上已关闭，人们沿街排队数英里，紧贴着警方和安保栏杆，目送利奥乘坐敞篷教皇专车巡游。利奥正在进行为期三国的南美之行的最后一站，也是最私人的一站。利奥原籍芝加哥，曾在秘鲁担任传教士和主教约20年，持有美国和秘鲁双重国籍。
Pilgrims, families and church groups had packed much of Lima's historic center, effectively shut down as people lined streets for miles, pressing against police and security barriers as Leo toured in an open-air popemobile. Leo is on the final and most personal leg of a three-country tour of South America. Originally from Chicago, the pope spent about 20 years as a missionary and bishop in Peru and holds US and Peruvian citizenship.
周三抵达秘鲁时，利奥在利马大国家剧院发表讲话，面对创下纪录的300万民众涌上街头，他宣布视秘鲁为故乡，赢得全场热烈掌声。78岁的卡门·莫雷诺周三晚在利马武器广场目送利奥的教皇专车驶过后拭去泪水，她和女儿已在那里等待了七个小时。她说，利奥的回归对秘鲁人而言意义深远，早在他成为教皇之前，秘鲁人就已接纳了他。
In a speech on arrival in the country on Wednesday, amid a record crowd of 3 million on Lima's streets, the pope declared to wide applause at the Gran Teatro Nacional that he considered Peru his homeland. Carmen Moreno, 78, wiped away tears after watching Leo's popemobile pass by on Wednesday evening in Lima's Plaza de Armas, where she had waited with her daughter for seven hours. She said his return felt deeply personal for Peruvians, who had embraced him long before he became pope.
“他是回到了让他成为今天这个人的土地，”莫雷诺说。“看到我们秘鲁人民如此爱他，我感到无比喜悦。” 教皇敦促藤森治愈秘鲁创伤 利奥周三还敦促秘鲁总统凯科·藤森直面该国动荡过去的创伤，并在今年早些时候因舞弊指控而蒙上阴影的险胜选举后，重建民众间的信任。莫雷诺表示，她对利奥的激动夹杂着对秘鲁暴力局势的焦虑，由于有组织犯罪扩张与国家机构弱化叠加，秘鲁犯罪率激增。
"He is returning to the land where he became who he is," Moreno said. "I feel so much joy seeing how much we, the Peruvian people, love him." POPE URGES FUJIMORI TO HEAL PERU'S WOUNDS Leo on Wednesday also urged Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori to confront the wounds of the country's turbulent past and rebuild trust among her people after her narrow victory in an election earlier this year marred by fraud accusations. Moreno said her excitement for Leo was mixed with anxiety over violence in Peru, where crime has surged due to a combination of expanding organized crime and weakening state institutions.
她说，她希望利奥为秘鲁祈祷，并祈祷“犯罪平息”。利奥正在进行为天主教教皇组织的数十年来最密集的外访之一，此行在他接受肺癌手术不到一个月后开始。教皇在整个行程中状态似乎良好，每天主持约五场公开活动，并以坚定清晰的声音发表长篇演讲。
She said she hoped Leo would pray for Peru and "for crime to subside". Leo is on one of the most intense foreign tours organized for a Catholic pope in decades, which started less than a month after he underwent surgery for lung cancer. The pope has seemed in good form throughout the trip, leading about five public events a day and giving long speeches in a firm, clear voice.
周四他有六场活动，包括与秘鲁主教会面、就该国未来发表演讲，以及在国家足球场与青年举行祈祷守夜仪式。周五，他将前往北部城市奇克拉约，他在2015年至2023年期间曾在那里担任主教，随后将在周末继续前往安第斯山脉的库斯科和亚马逊城市普卡尔帕。
He has six events on Thursday, including a meeting with Peru's bishops, a speech on the country's future, and a prayer vigil with young people in the national soccer stadium. On Friday, he is due to travel to the northern city of Chiclayo, where he served as bishop from 2015 to 2023, before continuing over the weekend to Cusco, in the Andes mountains, and the Amazonian city of Pucallpa.