The Latest on Pope Francis' visit to South America (all times local):
10:15 a.m.
A small chapel in southern Peru has sustained minor fire damage in what church officials believe is the latest act of vandalism against religious buildings during Pope Francis' trip to the region.
Patrol officers in the city of Arequipa discovered the front door of the chapel in flames around 3:40 a.m. and quickly extinguished the blaze.
The door was charred black, but no other part of 100-year-old building was damaged.
Authorities are investigating what caused the blaze. A preliminary theory is someone threw a fuel-soaked cloth at the chapel.
The incident comes hours before Francis is set to arrive in Peru later Thursday from neighboring Chile.
Eleven firebombs have damaged and in some cases burned churches to the ground in Chile in recent days.
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11:55 a.m.
Pope Francis is urging the people of a Chilean coastal city to continue to be welcoming toward migrants as their ranks swell.
Francis made the comments during a homily in Iquique, which has experienced a boom of immigrants from several countries. The rise has been so fast that today there are nearly two dozen immigrant slums.
The pope said Thursday: "This land is a land of dreams, but let us work to ensure that it also continues to be a land of hospitality."
According to U.N. and church statistics, Chile had the fastest annual rate of migrant growth of any country in Latin American between 2010 and 2015.
Many of the newcomers are Haitians, who often face language barriers that limit their job prospects.
Chile has not experienced the kind of anti-immigrant backlash seen in the U.S. and Europe, but the incoming conservative government of President Sebastian Pinera has promised to crack down.
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10:40 a.m.
Pope Francis has celebrated the first-ever airborne papal wedding, marrying two flight attendants from Chile's flagship airline during a flight from Santiago.
Bride Paola Podest and groom Carlos Ciuffardi said "I do" Thursday morning after telling Francis that they had been married in a civil service in 2010. However they said they were unable to follow up with a church ceremony because of the 2010 earthquake that hit Chile.
Francis then offered to marry the LATAM flight attendants aboard the aircraft en route to the northern city of Iquique, and they both readily agreed. The head of the airline served as the witness.
Ciuffardi told journalists in the aisle of the Airbus 321 that Francis told him it was "historic" and no pope had ever before married a couple aboard a plane.
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