'Pray for me,' Pope Francis urges hundreds of thousands at first Angelus
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Pope Francis recites the Angelus for the crowd in St Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday, March 17, 2013. The Pope appeared before more than 100,000 people massed in St Peter's Square on Sunday for his first Angelus prayer and asked the faithful to pray for him. -- PHOTO: AP
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Faithful gather in St Peter's Square for Pope Francis' first Angelus prayer on March 17, 2013, at the Vatican. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Newly elected Pope Francis is seen through the glass of his speech stand as he appears at the window of his future private apartment to bless the faithful, gathered below in St Peter's Square, during the Sunday Angelus prayer at the Vatican on March 17, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Crowds pack St Peter's Square as Pope Francis delivers his Angelus prayer from the window of his studio at the Vatican, on Sunday, March 17, 2013. -- PHOTO: AP
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Pope Francis speaks to the crowd in St Peter's Square from the window of his residence before the Angelus at the Vatican, on Sunday, March 17, 2013. -- PHOTO: AP
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Faithful gather in St Peter's Square for Pope Francis' first Angelus prayer on March 17, 2013, at the Vatican. -- PHOTO: AFP
Pope Francis recites the Angelus for the crowd in St Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday, March 17, 2013. The Pope appeared before more than 100,000 people massed in St Peter's Square on Sunday for his first Angelus prayer and asked the faithful to pray for him. -- PHOTO: AP
Faithful gather in St Peter's Square for Pope Francis' first Angelus prayer on March 17, 2013, at the Vatican. -- PHOTO: AFP
Newly elected Pope Francis is seen through the glass of his speech stand as he appears at the window of his future private apartment to bless the faithful, gathered below in St Peter's Square, during the Sunday Angelus prayer at the Vatican on March 17, 2013. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Crowds pack St Peter's Square as Pope Francis delivers his Angelus prayer from the window of his studio at the Vatican, on Sunday, March 17, 2013. -- PHOTO: AP
Pope Francis speaks to the crowd in St Peter's Square from the window of his residence before the Angelus at the Vatican, on Sunday, March 17, 2013. -- PHOTO: AP
Faithful gather in St Peter's Square for Pope Francis' first Angelus prayer on March 17, 2013, at the Vatican. -- PHOTO: AFP
VATICAN CITY (AFP) - Pope Francis appeared before more than 100,000 people massed in St Peter's Square on Sunday for his first Angelus prayer and asked the faithful to pray for him.
"Thank you for your welcome, and for your prayers," the first pope from Latin America said from a window of the papal apartment high above the square.
"Pray for me," he added.
Dozens of flags from Francis' native Argentina were waving in the crowd as the former cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio recited the traditional Sunday Angelus prayer, the first of his papacy. Flags from other Latin American nations, including Colombia, Peru, Paraguay and Mexico, could also be seen in the crowd.
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