Peruvian nun Alba Socola waited in line for almost five hours with thousands of other Catholics on Wednesday to enter St. Peter's Basilica and give her final farewell to the late Pope Francis.

Francis brought Prevost to work at the Vatican after first appointing him in 2014 to serve as the bishop of Chiclayo, Peru. Prevost is also president ... "I just signed an executive order putting the ...

(AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) FILE - Peru's Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa rearranges his hat during ceremonies for his conferment of the degree of Doctor of Literature ...

The Peruvian flag flew at half-staff Monday as the South American country marked the passing of literary great Mario Vargas Llosa with a day of national mourning. Tributes poured in from around ...

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But he burst onto the literary stage in 1963 with his groundbreaking debut “The Time of the Hero,” a novel that drew on his experiences at a Peruvian military academy and angered the country ...

Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after ... On the latest episode of "Sarra Sounds Off," an interview with Sayville flag football quarterback Olivia Moynihan, East Islip ...

In a resolution published in the official gazette, it was ordered that all Peruvian flags be flown at half-mast in all public buildings, military installations, bases, ships, police stations, as well ...

Peru has declared a day of mourning for the author, with flags flying at half-mast on government premises. The family said that "no public ceremony will take place," in accordance with ...

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Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has died aged 89, after a career spanning decades that produced dozens of works, courted controversy, provoked powerful interests in his native Peru and earned ...