The Nov. 6-17 trip will include stops in Montevideo, Paysandú and Florida in Uruguay; Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Luján in Argentina; and Lima, Chiclayo, Cusco and Pucallpa in Peru.
The pontiff said he was “following with concern the alarming situation in Ceuta,” where as many as 60 thousand migrants charged the frontier of the autonomous peninsular Spanish city last week.
In an exclusive interview with NBC News, which aired Wednesday evening, the pope answered a direct question regarding his plans to visit the country of his birth.