Pope Leo XIV arrived in Uruguay on Friday, November 6, 2026, opening a three-nation Latin American tour that had been thrown into doubt by his recent lung cancer surgery, according to BBC News and NPR.
The trip will also take the Pope to Argentina and Peru. Surgeons had removed part of his lung roughly three weeks before the tour began, BBC News reported, and the procedure had raised questions about whether the journey would go ahead at all, NPR said.