Pope Leo XIV prays for France at Lourdes and leads a massive Paris mass, urging peace, human rights, and wise leadership ahead of the presidential election. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Crowds stretched the length of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris, as Pope Leo XIV urged Catholics to find happiness in faith, not material things, at the biggest event of his visit to France, an outdoor Mass with an estimated 800,000 people.