The Pope cancels a visit to Assisi as a medical precaution, two weeks before his South American tour

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Pope Leo XIV cancelled a planned October 27 visit to Assisi after doctors advised against helicopter travel following his October 13 lung surgery. The cancelled engagement comes two weeks before his scheduled tour of Uruguay, Argentina, and Peru.

Pope Leo XIV has cancelled a visit planned for Tuesday, October 27, to Assisi, in central Italy, after his doctors advised against helicopter travel so soon after the lung surgery he underwent on October 13. It is the first engagement on his schedule to be called off since the operation, two weeks before the start of his tour of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru.