Más de medio millón de personas han asistido a la eucaristía inicial en la famosa playa de Río de Janeiro
A woman walks by as people (out of frame) get ready to spend the night in the street in Aparecida, in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, on July 23, 2013 in order to keep their place in the queue to get inside the Basilica of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Conception of Aparecida tomorrow during the visit of Pope Francis. The highlight of the landmark visit of Pope Francis to the world's most populous mainly Catholic country will be World Youth Day (WYD), a five-day event that kicks off today. Pope Francis's popularity on his Latin American home turf posed a challenge to Brazilian authorities Tuesday after adoring crowds mobbed his car on his arrival on Monday. AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOPHE SIMON
Catholic faithfuls carry the World Youth Day (WYD) Cross that in 1984 Pope John Paul II entrusted the youth of the world, to the stage before the start of the WYD opening mass, at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 23, 2013. The highlight of the landmark visit of Pope Francis to the world's most populous mainly Catholic country will be WYD, a five-day event that kicks off today. Pope Francis's popularity on his Latin American home turf posed a challenge to Brazilian authorities Tuesday after adoring crowds mobbed his car on his arrival on Monday. AFP PHOTO / TASSO MARCELO
Catholic faithfuls carry an icon of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ to the stage before the start of the World Youth Day (WYD) opening mass, at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 23, 2013. The highlight of the landmark visit of Pope Francis to the world's most populous mainly Catholic country will be WYD, a five-day event that kicks off today. Pope Francis's popularity on his Latin American home turf posed a challenge to Brazilian authorities Tuesday after adoring crowds mobbed his car on his arrival on Monday. AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS