(24 Feb 2025)
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Buenos Aires, Argentina – 24 February 2025
1. Close of banner with Argentine flags and hearts that read (Spanish): "Pope Francis, I pray for you"
2. Faithful holding posters with images of Pope Francis
3. Homeless man touching the photo of Pope Francis
4. Wide of Lady of Lujan statue and a band playing instruments
5. Pan of faithful and priests singing and clapping their hands
6. Archbishop Jorge Garcia Cuerva and colleagues praying
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Garcia Cuerva, Archbishop of Buenos Aires:
"We’ve even dared to try to tell him how to be Pope, as if we had the guidebook for that. And despite that, he loved and continues to love us and have us in his heart. That’s something of a loving father. That’s Francis, the Pope for everybody, but we know that in his heart there is much of being Argentine and ‘Porteño’."
8. Close of woman holding a frame that contain various images of Pope Francis
9. Pope Francis image placed on the side of a fire truck
10. Archbishop Jorge Garcia Cuerva speaking during mass
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Garcia Cuerva, Archbishop of Buenos Aires:
"Dear Francis, we are here for you. Like the deaf from the gospel, we also want to stand up and take the hand of the Lady Mary of Lujan, from whom we know you are so devout. And we ask you to not give up, because we need you. Long live Pope Francis! Long live Pope Francis! Long live Pope Francis!"
12. Faithful touches the image of Pope Francis, which is placed beside a statue of Virgen de Lujan
13. Faithful touching another image of Virgen de Lujan
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Alejandro Gramajo, member of social organization UTEP:
"I believe that in this critical moment, Argentines and the entire world need to sit down and discuss the role and the historical dimension of Pope Francis’s rule, because he’s the only humanist leader that questions, criticise, and points out the reality of the working class and the poor people."
15. Wide of priests and faithful clapping their hands and cheering as the mass ends
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of Argentines gathered in a central square in Buenos Aires Monday to pray for Pope Francis’s health and recovery.
The prayers were led by Jorge Garcia Cuerva, Archbishop of Buenos Aires in the iconic Constitution Square.
Prayers and chants where heard during the mass.
Many attendees carried posters and photos of Pope Francis and Lady of Lujan, whom Francis is a devout.
The event took place as the Pope, a native of the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, remained in a critical condition with a serious lung infection in a Rome hospital, where he was admitted on Feb. 14.
In its latest report on Francis’s health condition, the Vatican reported that the pontiff was conscious but still receiving “high flows” of supplemental oxygen after going through a respiratory crisis and blood transfusions.
AP Video by Cristian Kovadloff
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