Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

1.5 million Brazilians throng to see 'pope of poor'

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RIO DE JANEIRO, July 26, 2013 (AFP) - A huge crowd of 1.5 million Catholics greeted Pope Francis on Brazil's Copacabana beach on Thursday after the pontiff toured a notorious Rio slum to defend the cause of the poor.Latin America's first pope was confronted with starkly contrastin­g images of life in the tropical metropolis on the fourth day of his visit to Brazil, from its ritzy seafront to its impoverish­ed hillside favelas.

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