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Pope Francis visits a detention center for young offenders in Panama, he then heard confessions from a few of them. IMAGES
Pope Francis drives up the Avenue du Prado in Marseille in his "popemobile", decorated in the Vatican's yellow and white colours, before heading to the Stade Velodrome to celebrate a mass. IMAGES
Pope Francis rides in the popemobile as he arrives a major Catholic youth festival in the capital Lisbon's Tejo Park. IMAGES
Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims cheer Pope Francis as the pontiff arrives at a Lisbon park for an homage to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ at a global jamboree. It marks the pope's second mass event with participants at this year's World Youth Day, which is actually a six-day extravaganza and happens to be the largest Catholic gathering in the world. Local authorities estimate the crowd size at about 800,000 people. IMAGES
Thousands of pilgrims from around the globe gather in Lisbon, many of them waving their national flags, as they wait to welcome Pope Francis at the world's largest Catholic gathering. More than a million people from over 200 countries are expected to visit the Portuguese capital for the World Youth Day, which is in fact a six-day international Catholic jamboree. IMAGES