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Pope draws 200,000 pilgrims to Portugal's Fatima shrine

Worshippers waved and called out "Viva!" as the 86-year-old pontiff, wearing a white cassock, slowly drove past on his popemobile.

Pope Francis presides over the Holy Rosary prayer with sick young people at the Chapel of Apparitions in the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima, in Fatima, Portugal on Aug 5, 2023. (AFP/ Vatican Media)
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

FATIMA - Around 200,000 pilgrims flooded the shrine of Fatima in Portugal on Saturday to attend a service held by Pope Francis at one of Catholicism's most revered sites devoted

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